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1..  SPDX-License-Identifier: (BSD-3-Clause OR GPL-2.0)
2    Copyright(c) 2018-2019 Pensando Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.
3
4IONIC Driver
5============
6
7The ionic driver provides support for Pensando server adapters.
8It currently supports the below models:
9
10- `Naples DSC-25 <https://pensando.io/assets/documents/Naples-25_ProductBrief_10-2019.pdf>`_
11- `Naples DSC-100 <https://pensando.io/assets/documents/Naples_100_ProductBrief-10-2019.pdf>`_
12
13Please visit https://pensando.io for more information.
14
15Identifying the Adapter
16-----------------------
17
18To find if one or more Pensando PCI Ethernet devices are installed
19on the host, check for the PCI devices:
20
21   .. code-block:: console
22
23      lspci -d 1dd8:
24      b5:00.0 Ethernet controller: Device 1dd8:1002
25      b6:00.0 Ethernet controller: Device 1dd8:1002
26
27Pre-Installation Configuration
28------------------------------
29
30The following options can be modified in the ``config`` file.
31
32- ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_IONIC_PMD`` (default ``y``)
33
34  Toggle compilation of ionic PMD.
35
36Building DPDK
37-------------
38
39The ionic PMD driver supports UIO and VFIO, please refer to the
40:ref:`DPDK documentation that comes with the DPDK suite <linux_gsg>`
41for instructions on how to build DPDK.
42