The Broadcom BNXT PMD (**librte_net_bnxt**) implements support for adapters
based on Ethernet controllers and SoCs belonging to the Broadcom
-BCM574XX/BCM575XX NetXtreme-E® Family of Ethernet Network Controllers,
+BCM5741X/BCM575XX NetXtreme-E® Family of Ethernet Network Controllers,
the Broadcom BCM588XX Stingray Family of Smart NIC Adapters, and the Broadcom
StrataGX® BCM5873X Series of Communications Processors.
VFIO is more secure than UIO, relying on IOMMU protection.
UIO requires the IOMMU disabled or configured to pass-through mode.
-Operating Systems supported:
-
-* Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.1 (Ootpa)
-* Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.0 (Ootpa)
-* Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.7 (Maipo)
-* Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.6 (Maipo)
-* Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.5 (Maipo)
-* Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.4 (Maipo)
-* Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.3 (Maipo)
-* Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.2 (Maipo)
-* CentOS Linux release 8.0
-* CentOS Linux release 7.7
-* CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810
-* CentOS Linux release 7.5.1804
-* CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708
-* Fedora 31
-* FreeBSD 12.1
-* Suse 15SP1
-* Ubuntu 19.04
-* Ubuntu 18.04
-* Ubuntu 16.10
-* Ubuntu 16.04
-* Ubuntu 14.04
-
The BNXT PMD supports operating with:
* Linux vfio-pci
This is a tech preview feature, and is disabled by default. It can be enabled
using bnxt devargs. For ex: "-a 0000:0d:00.0,host-based-truflow=1”.
+This feature is currently supported on Whitney+ and Stingray devices.
+
Notes
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Note that TX (or RX) vector mode can be enabled independently from RX (or TX)
vector mode.
+Also vector mode is allowed when jumbo is enabled
+as long as the MTU setting does not require scattered Rx.
+
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