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1..  SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
2    Copyright(c) 2015-2020.
3
4TXGBE Poll Mode Driver
5======================
6
7The TXGBE PMD (librte_pmd_txgbe) provides poll mode driver support
8for Wangxun 10 Gigabit Ethernet NICs.
9
10Features
11--------
12
13- Multiple queues for TX and RX
14- Receiver Side Scaling (RSS)
15- MAC/VLAN filtering
16- Packet type information
17- Checksum offload
18- VLAN/QinQ stripping and inserting
19- TSO offload
20- Promiscuous mode
21- Multicast mode
22- Port hardware statistics
23- Jumbo frames
24- Link state information
25- Link flow control
26- Interrupt mode for RX
27- Scattered and gather for TX and RX
28- DCB
29- IEEE 1588
30- FW version
31- LRO
32
33Prerequisites
34-------------
35
36- Learning about Wangxun 10 Gigabit Ethernet NICs using
37  `<https://www.net-swift.com/a/383.html>`_.
38
39- Follow the DPDK :ref:`Getting Started Guide for Linux <linux_gsg>` to setup the basic DPDK environment.
40
41Pre-Installation Configuration
42------------------------------
43
44Build Options
45~~~~~~~~~~~~~
46
47The following build-time options may be enabled on build time using.
48
49``-Dc_args=`` meson argument (e.g. ``-Dc_args=-DRTE_LIBRTE_TXGBE_DEBUG_RX``).
50
51Please note that enabling debugging options may affect system performance.
52
53- ``RTE_LIBRTE_TXGBE_DEBUG_RX`` (undefined by default)
54
55  Toggle display of receive fast path run-time messages.
56
57- ``RTE_LIBRTE_TXGBE_DEBUG_TX`` (undefined by default)
58
59  Toggle display of transmit fast path run-time messages.
60
61- ``RTE_LIBRTE_TXGBE_DEBUG_TX_FREE`` (undefined by default)
62
63  Toggle display of transmit descriptor clean messages.
64
65Dynamic Logging Parameters
66~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
67
68One may leverage EAL option "--log-level" to change default levels
69for the log types supported by the driver. The option is used with
70an argument typically consisting of two parts separated by a colon.
71
72TXGBE PMD provides the following log types available for control:
73
74- ``pmd.net.txgbe.driver`` (default level is **notice**)
75
76  Affects driver-wide messages unrelated to any particular devices.
77
78- ``pmd.net.txgbe.init`` (default level is **notice**)
79
80  Extra logging of the messages during PMD initialization.
81
82Driver compilation and testing
83------------------------------
84
85Refer to the document :ref:`compiling and testing a PMD for a NIC <pmd_build_and_test>`
86for details.
87
88Limitations or Known issues
89---------------------------
90
91Build with ICC is not supported yet.
92Power8, ARMv7 and BSD are not supported yet.
93