Bug 1169367

Summary: dpdk missing physical poll-mode drivers
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Avi Kivity <avi.kivity>
Component: dpdkAssignee: Neil Horman <nhorman>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Avi Kivity 2014-12-01 13:06:34 UTC
Description of problem:

dpdk does not include poll-mode drivers for real devices, only virtual.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1.7.0-0.11.20140603git5ebbb1728.fc21.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always, without fail

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -ql dpdk | grep pmd

Actual results:

Four virtual drivers listed.

Expected results:

Additional, physical drivers listed.


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Comment 1 Neil Horman 2014-12-02 11:20:45 UTC
Not a bug, Fedora does not ship out of tree kernel drivers, and all of the currently available in the 1.7.0 dpdk require in kernel modules.  As such we are currently only shipping the non-physical pmds.  When we update to a later dpdk, we can enable the VFIO drivers.