[dpdk-dev] Does FreeBSD's nic_uio have bind/unbind interface support?
Rahul Lakkireddy
rahul.lakkireddy at chelsio.com
Thu Jul 16 13:12:06 CEST 2015
Hi Bruce and David,
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 09:57:15 +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 09:57:03AM +0200, David Marchand wrote:
> > Hello Rahul,
> >
> > (cc Bruce)
> >
> > How about removing this "whitelist" from the nic_uio driver and just rely
> > on the hw.nic_uio.bdfs parameter to find out which devices to bind ?
> >
> Yes, that would be my thinking too. It probably should work that way, much as
> linux does.
>
> /Bruce
>
Tried the suggestion on removing the "whitelist" checks and it seems to work
fine for us. It's allowing T5 devices to be bound to nic_uio and also results
in successful probe.
Will prepare a patch to remove the whitelist checks and pci id entries from
nic_uio and post soon.
Thanks,
Rahul
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