1.. SPDX-License-Identifier: (BSD-3-Clause OR GPL-2.0) 2 Copyright(c) 2018-2020 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- DSC-25 dual-port 25G Distributed Services Card `(pdf) <https://pensando.io/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Pensando-DSC-25-Product-Brief.pdf>`__ 11- DSC-100 dual-port 100G Distributed Services Card `(pdf) <https://pensando.io/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Pensando-DSC-100-Product-Brief.pdf>`__ 12 13Please visit the Pensando web site at https://pensando.io for more information. 14The `Documents <https://pensando.io/documents/>`_ page contains Product Briefs and other product information. 15 16Identifying the Adapter 17----------------------- 18 19To determine if one or more Pensando DSC Ethernet devices are installed 20on the host, check for the PCI devices: 21 22 .. code-block:: console 23 24 lspci -d 1dd8: 25 b5:00.0 Ethernet controller: Device 1dd8:1002 26 b6:00.0 Ethernet controller: Device 1dd8:1002 27 28Firmware Support 29---------------- 30 31The ionic PMD requires firmware which supports 16 segment transmit SGLs. 32This support was added prior to version 1.0. For help upgrading older versions, 33please contact Pensando support. 34 35Building DPDK 36------------- 37 38The ionic PMD supports UIO and VFIO. Please refer to the 39:ref:`DPDK documentation that comes with the DPDK suite <linux_gsg>` 40for instructions on how to build DPDK. 41