Bug#852493: Please enable Thunder NIC virtual function driver
On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 02:05:06AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Control: tag -1 moreinfo
>
> On Tue, 2017-01-24 at 22:13 +0000, Punit Agrawal wrote:
> > Source: linux
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Tags: patch
> >
> > While testing device passthrough with a debian guest on a Cavium
> > Thunder, I found that the virtual function(VF) driver for the built in
> > nic is not available.
> >
> > Please enable CONFIG_THUNDER_NIC_VF in the debian kernel config.
> So long as this hardware is part of specific SoCs, we should only
> enable it for the CPU architectures used in those SoCs. That's arm64,
> right? (Possibly also mips64, but we don't support Cavium MIPS SoCs at
> all yet.)
> Shouldn't we also enable CONFIG_THUNDER_NIC_{PF,BGX,RGX} along with
> this?
I've added these and other drivers used by cavium SoC in arm64 config change
I posted[1]. I'm still in in process of refining the patch to make not change
ABI, but seems almost any config option fails the configcheck for me :/
[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2017/01/msg00178.html
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