[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/7] net/ixgbe/base: support Broadwell-DE XFI backplane

Dai, Wei wei.dai at intel.com
Thu Jan 12 14:17:58 CET 2017


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yigit, Ferruh
> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 11:38 PM
> To: Dai, Wei <wei.dai at intel.com>; dev at dpdk.org
> Cc: Zhang, Helin <helin.zhang at intel.com>; Ananyev, Konstantin
> <konstantin.ananyev at intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/7] net/ixgbe/base: support Broadwell-DE XFI
> backplane
> 
> On 1/10/2017 3:45 PM, Wei Dai wrote:
> > This patch adds initial support for a Braodwell-DE XFI backplane
> > interface. The XFI backplane requires a custom tuned link.
> > Hardware/Firmware owns the link config for XF backplane and software
> > must not interfere with it.
> 
> Does it make sense to announce this support in release notes?
This is just an initial support and need to be further completed and optimized,
So I don't think it is suitable to announce in this release note.
Maybe we can do that in next release 17.05 .

> 
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Wei Dai <wei.dai at intel.com>
> <...>


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