[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 1/3] xen: Add UIO kernel driver

[Jan Blunck]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 11:42 AM, Thomas Monjalon
<thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com> wrote:
> 2016-03-22 10:55, Jan Blunck:
>> New UIO helper kernel driver for Xen netfront UIO poll mode driver.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck at infradead.org>
>
> Is it contributed upstream?

No. Haven't planed that yet.

> Is there something common with igb_uio?

AFAIK igb_uio is mapping the bars via UIO. The Xen netfront driver
isn't simulating a PCI interface. Instead it directly maps the TX/RX
ring.

Overlap is limited to reading sysfs files. Don't know if that is worth
being extracted into a standalone header.