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Intel's Newest Linux Driver Being Worked On For The Kernel: iXD
Intel open-source software engineers last week posted a set of patches for a new driver: iXD
The iXD driver is to take a prime role with their Infrastructure Processing Unit (IPU) and Fabric Channel NICs (FNICs). Subsequent phases will implement advanced features like usage of idpf ethernet aux device, link management, NVM update via devlink, switchdev port representors, data and exception path, flow rule programming, etc." Should this Intel Control Plane PCI Function IPU/FNIC driver be of interest to your computing needs, learn more via this patch series currently under review on the Linux kernel mailing list.About The AuthorMichael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience.
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