[PATCH V2] doc: add ice in-tree driver version for Intel NICs

[David Marchand]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 4:52 AM Peng, Yuan <yuan.peng at intel.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Marchand,
>
> Tested platform in this document lists all the platforms including CPU, OS and NIC type with SW package version.
> We submitted the patch to add our actual tested ice in-tree driver version of E810 NIC in this DPDK release.
> I think it should be added here.

Ok, you can put the information here, as it was before.
But I am asking for more, see below.

> doc/guides/nics/ice.rst is a document for ICE driver introduction.

- Sorry, I meant iavf.rst.

The dependency on ice PF driver wrt features availability of the iavf
driver must be documented.

We had reports for couple of issues.
Those issues were hard to understand due to really poor (read: absent)
documentation.
After investigating (having to play with differents versions of
kernel, dpdk, firmwares, oot driver ...), we realise it is due to poor
decisions from Intel on implementing features in the ice OOT driver
only.

Because of this, DPDK developers are locked with this OOT driver
instead of relying on the upstream kernel.
This is a bad thing for both DPDK and kernel communities.


- This current patch only shows focus for tests against two
distributions, with a fixed release version.
I insist that Intel QE must validate the iavf dpdk drivers against the
*upstream* ice kernel driver.


-- 
David Marchand