[PATCH v7 04/15] net/xsc: add xsc dev ops to support VFIO driver

[Thomas Monjalon]

05/02/2025 15:37, Renyong Wan:
> On 2025/2/5 19:44, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 28/01/2025 15:46, Renyong Wan:
> >> XSC PMD is designed to support both VFIO and private kernel drivers.
> > What's the benefit of private kernel drivers?
> > Why are they private?
> 
> Hello Thomas,
> 
> Thanks for your review.
> 
> It can support the bifurcation model without unbinding the kernel 
> driver, by utilizing our private kernel driver in conjunction with 
> rdma-core. Currently, our kernel driver is not open-source, so it is 
> considered a private kernel driver. This patch series only supports the 
> VFIO driver. Our kernel driver is currently in the process of being 
> open-sourced on kernel.org, and once it is available there, we also plan 
> to submit the code that supports our kernel driver to DPDK.

OK that's interesting, thank you.

I think it would be the first DPDK driver to support both VFIO or bifurcated model.
How will we choose which one to use? With devargs?