[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] net/e1000: build on Windows

[William Tu]

On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 1:35 PM Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2021-10-08 06:53 (UTC-0700), William Tu:
> > This patch enables building the e1000 driver for Windows.
> > I tested using two Windows VM on top of VMware Fusion,
> > creating two e1000 devices with device ID 0x10D3,
> > verifying rx/tx works correctly using dpdk-testpmd.exe
> > rxonly and txonly mode.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: William Tu <u9012063 at gmail.com>
> > Cc: Haiyue Wang <haiyue.wang at intel.com>
>
> Will there be an accompanying kmods patch to add the device ID to .inf?
>
> With device ID added to netuio, in QEMU with -device e1000e,
> Tested-by: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk at gmail.com>
>
> > diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/e1000em.rst b/doc/guides/nics/e1000em.rst
> > index 041c9a09a3a5..03ae23838bfa 100644
> > --- a/doc/guides/nics/e1000em.rst
> > +++ b/doc/guides/nics/e1000em.rst
> > @@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
> >  ..  SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
> >      Copyright(c) 2010-2014 Intel Corporation.
> >
> > +.. include:: <isonum.txt>
> > +
> >  Driver for VM Emulated Devices
> >  ==============================
> >
> > @@ -153,3 +155,14 @@ The following are known limitations:
> >  #.  Qemu e1000 only supports one interrupt source, so link and Rx interrupt should be exclusive.
> >
> >  #.  Qemu e1000 does not support interrupt auto-clear, application should disable interrupt immediately when woken up.
> > +
> > +Windows Configuration
> > +---------------------
> > +
> > +- Follow the :doc:`guide for Windows <../windows_gsg/run_apps>`
> > +  to setup the basic DPDK environment.
> > +
> > +- Identify the Intel\ |reg| Ethernet adapter.
> > +
> > +- To load NetUIO driver, follow the steps mentioned in `dpdk-kmods repository
> > +  <https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-kmods/tree/windows/netuio/README.rst>`_.
>
> There is nothing special about setting up this device on Windows.
> I think we don't need this part.

Thank you. I will add the Device ID to netuio.inf file
and remove the above part.
Will wait for Pallavi's test and resend the patch.

Thanks
William