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1..  SPDX-License-Identifier: (BSD-3-Clause OR GPL-2.0)
2    Copyright(c) 2018-2020 Pensando Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.
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4IONIC Driver
5============
6
7The ionic driver provides support for Pensando server adapters.
8It currently supports the below models:
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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>`__
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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.
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16Identifying the Adapter
17-----------------------
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19To determine if one or more Pensando DSC Ethernet devices are installed
20on the host, check for the PCI devices:
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22   .. code-block:: console
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24      lspci -d 1dd8:
25      b5:00.0 Ethernet controller: Device 1dd8:1002
26      b6:00.0 Ethernet controller: Device 1dd8:1002
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29Building DPDK
30-------------
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32The ionic PMD supports UIO and VFIO. Please refer to the
33:ref:`DPDK documentation that comes with the DPDK suite <linux_gsg>`
34for instructions on how to build DPDK.
35