Re: [Etherboot-developers] [PATCH 5/6] vxge driver submission

[Masroor V. <Mas...@ne...>]

This includes the gpxe changes to support the vxge driver.

Thanks,
Masroor

-----Original Message-----
From: Masroor Vettuparambil 
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 11:46 AM
To: 'eth...@li...'; 'Stefan Hajnoczi'; 'Marty Connor'
Cc: Sivakumar Subramani; Ramkrishna Vepa; Masroor Vettuparambil
Subject: RE: [Etherboot-developers] [PATCH 4/6] vxge driver submission

This patch includes gpxe network driver entry apis.

Thanks,
Masroor

-----Original Message-----
From: Masroor Vettuparambil
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 11:45 AM
To: 'eth...@li...'; 'Stefan Hajnoczi'; 'Marty Connor'
Cc: Sivakumar Subramani; Ramkrishna Vepa; Masroor Vettuparambil
Subject: RE: [Etherboot-developers] [PATCH 3/6] vxge driver submission

It includes the traffic  related apis and interrupt processing.

Thanks,
Masroor

-----Original Message-----
From: Masroor Vettuparambil
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 11:43 AM
To: 'eth...@li...'; 'Stefan Hajnoczi'; 'Marty Connor'
Cc: Sivakumar Subramani; Ramkrishna Vepa; Masroor Vettuparambil
Subject: RE: [Etherboot-developers] [PATCH 2/6] vxge driver submission

This patch includes the initialization and configuration steps.

Thanks,
Masroor

-----Original Message-----
From: Masroor Vettuparambil
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 11:40 AM
To: eth...@li...; 'Stefan Hajnoczi'; Marty Connor
Cc: Sivakumar Subramani; Ramkrishna Vepa; Masroor Vettuparambil
Subject: RE: [Etherboot-developers] [PATCH 1/6] vxge driver submission

Hi all,

This is the first among a series of 6 patches for our vxge driver. The X3100 10GbE Server/Storage Adapter is server I/O virtualization oriented and can be configured in four modes, 1. Single function, 2. Multi Function, 3. SRIOV, 4. MRIOV. 

Due to the relatively large register set and configuration, our driver is comparatively a bit bulky. However we have tried to make it as much as compact. 

This first patch includes a complete Register map details of the hardware. 

We would appreciate the community review and comments on this driver. 
Also congratulations to the community for a brilliant work.

Thanks,
Masroor

-----Original Message-----
From: Stefan Hajnoczi [mailto:ste...@gm...]
Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 5:39 PM
To: Masroor Vettuparambil
Cc: eth...@li...; Sivakumar Subramani; Marty Connor
Subject: Re: [Etherboot-developers] [RFC] vxge driver submission

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Masroor Vettuparambil <Mas...@ne...> wrote:
> We would like to submit the patches and to get it included in v1.0 release.
>  Do we need to go through the 'staging tree procedure' listed in the 
> wiki to merge with mainline gPXE tree, or is it ok to send a series of 
> patches to the list?

Please post patches to the list.  They will be put into the staging repository for testing and review by a "sponsor", a gPXE developer helping the patch get into mainline.

The staging wiki page has guidelines and git commands that produce a patch suitable for the mailing list:
http://etherboot.org/wiki/staging#contributing_a_new_feature

Marty can give you an idea of the 1.0.0 release cycle and whether it is still possible to merge this driver.

Stefan