net/vmxnet3: enable on Windows
authorDmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>
Sun, 21 Feb 2021 00:55:52 +0000 (03:55 +0300)
committerFerruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Thu, 25 Mar 2021 16:00:49 +0000 (17:00 +0100)
Remove OS restriction and update release notes.

For the record, tested on the following setup with Windows Server 2019 in
QEMU (-device vmxnet3) :

[ping     ]           [                     ]           [     ping]
[OS       ]           [    dpdk-skeleton    ]           [       OS]
[virtio---]--sockets--[---vmxnet3 vmxnet3---]--sockets--[---virtio]
[Debian VM]           [     Windows VM      ]           [Debian VM]

Debian VMs successfully ping'd each other with Windows forwarding.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Yong Wang <yongwang@vmware.com>
doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst
drivers/net/vmxnet3/meson.build

index 46ae33f..d186fc8 100644 (file)
@@ -106,6 +106,8 @@ New Features
 
   * Added support for txgbevf PMD.
 
+* **Enabled vmxnet3 PMD on Windows.**
+
 * **Updated the AF_XDP driver.**
 
   * Added support for preferred busy polling.
index 1242386..0641f77 100644 (file)
@@ -1,12 +1,6 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
 # Copyright(c) 2018 Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
 
-if is_windows
-       build = false
-       reason = 'not supported on Windows'
-       subdir_done()
-endif
-
 sources += files(
        'vmxnet3_ethdev.c',
        'vmxnet3_rxtx.c',