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Organize driver documentation by device type. Most documents have fairly verbose yet uninformative names, so let users first select a well defined device type, and then search for a particular driver. While at it rename the section from Vendor drivers to Hardware drivers. This seems more accurate, besides people sometimes refer to out-of-tree drivers as vendor drivers. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Acked-by: Shannon Nelson <snelson@pensando.io> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
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Linux Base Virtual Function Driver for Intel(R) 10G Ethernet
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Intel 10 Gigabit Virtual Function Linux driver.
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Copyright(c) 1999-2018 Intel Corporation.
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Contents
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- Identifying Your Adapter
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- Known Issues
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- Support
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This driver supports 82599, X540, X550, and X552-based virtual function devices
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that can only be activated on kernels that support SR-IOV.
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For questions related to hardware requirements, refer to the documentation
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supplied with your Intel adapter. All hardware requirements listed apply to use
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with Linux.
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Identifying Your Adapter
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The driver is compatible with devices based on the following:
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* Intel(R) Ethernet Controller 82598
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* Intel(R) Ethernet Controller 82599
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* Intel(R) Ethernet Controller X520
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* Intel(R) Ethernet Controller X540
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* Intel(R) Ethernet Controller x550
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* Intel(R) Ethernet Controller X552
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* Intel(R) Ethernet Controller X553
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For information on how to identify your adapter, and for the latest Intel
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network drivers, refer to the Intel Support website:
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https://www.intel.com/support
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Known Issues/Troubleshooting
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============================
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SR-IOV requires the correct platform and OS support.
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The guest OS loading this driver must support MSI-X interrupts.
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This driver is only supported as a loadable module at this time. Intel is not
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supplying patches against the kernel source to allow for static linking of the
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drivers.
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VLANs: There is a limit of a total of 64 shared VLANs to 1 or more VFs.
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Support
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For general information, go to the Intel support website at:
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https://www.intel.com/support/
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or the Intel Wired Networking project hosted by Sourceforge at:
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https://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000
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If an issue is identified with the released source code on a supported kernel
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with a supported adapter, email the specific information related to the issue
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to e1000-devel@lists.sf.net.
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