[PATCH v4 01/16] net/nbl: add doc and minimum nbl build framework

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Tue, 12 Aug 2025 23:43:55 -0700
Dimon Zhao <dimon.zhao at nebula-matrix.com> wrote:

> diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/features/nbl.ini b/doc/guides/nics/features/nbl.ini
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..6daabe6ed3
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/doc/guides/nics/features/nbl.ini
> @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
> +;
> +; Supported features of the 'nbl' network poll mode driver.
> +;
> +; Refer to default.ini for the full list of available PMD features.
> +;
> +[Features]
> +Linux                = Y
> +ARMv8                = Y
> +x86-64               = Y

The features matrix is not updated by later patches and the driver does
support more than this. Please address in next version.


Link status - Device appears to support basic update here.
Speed setting - there is code in configure for this
MTU update - device appears to support this.
Promiscuous mode - has hooks for this
Scatter Gather - appears to support it
Queue start - stop appears to be in nbl_txrx.c but no ethdev ops
Stats per queue - there is code in get_stats already