Hi, I'm wondering if there is anything Netronome can do to assist with regards to this bug. Its very important to us.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1768526 Title: Include nfp driver in linux-modules Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: SRU Justification: ------------------ [Impact] * Currently the driver for Netronome Agilio SmartNICs, nfp.ko, is included in linux-moudles-extra. An implication of this is that on minimal installs, where the linux-modules but not linux-modules-extra packages are available, the nfp.ko module cannot be installed. In particular this means the driver for any VFs of Netronome Agilio SmartNICs which have been made available to guests using PCI pass-through cannot be used by those guests if they have installed using Canonical cloud images, a likely scenario. In contrast the driver for the i40e is provided in the linux-modules package and thus guests can access their VFs in the scenario described above. Thus we do not believe it is unreasonable to request that nfp.ko be included in linux-modules rather than linux-modules-extras. And we believe that this warrants SRU inclusion as it is the difference between users-of guests being able to use Netronome Agilio SmartNICs and not be able to use them. This is a packaging update request and included no request to change the kernel source code, thus no backports are requred. [Test Case] * Install system using Canonical cloud images * Observer that /lib/modules/*/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp.ko is missing; * If an Netronome Agilio SmartNIC device is present, via PCI pass-through or otherwise, that the nfp driver is not loaded and no netdevs are present for the Netronome Agilio SmartNIC. [Regression Potential] * Any bugs present in the nfp.ko will now be exposted to guests. However as the same nfp.ko driver binary is already included in and available on installs that have access to linux-modules-extra, this does not seem an unreasonable burden. [Other Info] * None To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1768526/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
