[openib-general] [PATCH v2 0/11] [RFC] Support for QLogic Virtual Ethernet I/O Controller (VEx)

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at mellanox.co.il
Tue Nov 14 07:43:07 PST 2006


Quoting Ramachandra K <ramachandra.kuchimanchi at qlogic.com>:
> Subject: [PATCH v2 0/11] [RFC] Support for QLogic Virtual Ethernet I/O Controller (VEx)
> 
> This patch set adds support for the QLogic Virtual Ethernet I/O 
> controller (VEx), which presents a true Ethernet NIC to the host.
> 
> This driver provides a standard Ethernet NIC interface to the system and 
> treats IB as an I/O bus to allow a host CPU to use the VEx card as its NIC.

Is the VEx wire protocol documented somewhere? For example, what is a viport?
What is a netpath?  It's somewhat hard to understand the code without the
protocol spec it is trying to implement.

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MST




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