[PATCH v4 00/15] net/ngbe: add VF driver support

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Mon, 20 Jan 2025 17:42:26 +0800
Zaiyu Wang <zaiyuwang at trustnetic.com> wrote:

> This patch adds support to VF device for ngbe PMD.
> 
> ---
> v2:
> - update description of patch content
> - fix build issue
> - formatting and cleanup
> ---
> v3:
> - fix Intel-compilation error
> ---
> v4:
> - fix to add Line Feed at the end of files
> ---
> 
> Zaiyu Wang (15):
>   net/ngbe: add ethdev probe and remove for VF device
>   net/ngbe: add support for PF-VF mailbox interface
>   net/ngbe: add hardware configuration code for VF device
>   net/ngbe: add promiscuous and allmulticast ops for VF device
>   net/ngbe: add set MTU ops for VF device
>   net/ngbe: add add/remove/set mac addr ops for VF device
>   net/ngbe: add datapath init code for VF device
>   net/ngbe: add VLAN related ops for VF device
>   net/ngbe: add interrupt support for VF device
>   net/ngbe: add link update ops for VF device
>   net/ngbe: add stats and xstats ops for VF device
>   net/ngbe: add start/stop/reset/close ops for VF device
>   net/ngbe: add multicast MAC filter ops for VF device
>   net/ngbe: add dump registers ops for VF device
>   net/ngbe: add some ops which PF has implemented
> 
>  doc/guides/nics/features/ngbe_vf.ini |   37 +
>  doc/guides/nics/ngbe.rst             |   11 +
>  drivers/net/ngbe/base/meson.build    |    1 +
>  drivers/net/ngbe/base/ngbe.h         |    1 +
>  drivers/net/ngbe/base/ngbe_hw.c      |    4 +
>  drivers/net/ngbe/base/ngbe_mbx.c     |  338 +++++++
>  drivers/net/ngbe/base/ngbe_mbx.h     |   31 +
>  drivers/net/ngbe/base/ngbe_type.h    |   15 +
>  drivers/net/ngbe/base/ngbe_vf.c      |  671 +++++++++++++
>  drivers/net/ngbe/base/ngbe_vf.h      |   68 ++
>  drivers/net/ngbe/meson.build         |    1 +
>  drivers/net/ngbe/ngbe_ethdev.h       |    6 +
>  drivers/net/ngbe/ngbe_ethdev_vf.c    | 1353 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/net/ngbe/ngbe_rxtx.c         |  209 ++++
>  14 files changed, 2746 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 doc/guides/nics/features/ngbe_vf.ini
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/ngbe/base/ngbe_vf.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/ngbe/base/ngbe_vf.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/ngbe/ngbe_ethdev_vf.c
> 

Pending in next-net branch.
Could you please add a short release note in a follow on patch?