This patch add a user guidance document specific for igb nic. By now, a doc like ixgbe.rst is also needed by igb nic. So this patch add igb.rst to record important information about igb, like feature supported and known issues.
Signed-off-by: Wei Zhao <wei.zh...@intel.com> --- v2: -change code indentation style. v3: -add more details for igb feature. --- doc/guides/nics/igb.rst | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/guides/nics/igb.rst diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/igb.rst b/doc/guides/nics/igb.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0171622 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/guides/nics/igb.rst @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause + Copyright(c) 2017 Intel Corporation. + +IGB Poll Mode Driver +==================== + +The IGB PMD (``librte_pmd_e1000``) provides poll mode driver +support for Intel 1GbE nics. + +Features +-------- + +Features of the IGB PMD are: + +* Multiple queues for TX and RX +* Receiver Side Scaling (RSS) +* MAC/VLAN filtering +* Packet type information +* Double VLAN +* IEEE 1588 +* TSO offload +* Checksum offload +* TCP segmentation offload +* Jumbo frames supported + + +Limitations or Known issues +--------------------------- + + +Supported Chipsets and NICs +--------------------------- + +- Intel 82576EB 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller +- Intel 82580EB 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller +- Intel 82580DB 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller +- Intel Ethernet Controller I210 +- Intel Ethernet Controller I350 -- 2.9.3