Chapter 2. Hardware Installation
For Chelsio adapters, the physical functions are currently assigned as:
Physical functions 0 - 3: for the SR-IOV functions of the adapter
Physical function 4: for all NIC functions of the adapter
Physical function 5: for iSCSI
Physical function 6: for FCoE
Physical function 7: Currently not assigned
xiv. Install and load the appropriate network driver
xv. Finally, verify if the card is discovered:
The above outputs indicate the hardware configuration of the adapters as well as the Serial
numbers.
Network device names for Chelsio's physical ports are assigned using the following
Note
convention: the port farthest from the motherboard will appear as the first Ethernet
network interface. However, for T5 40G adapters, the association of physical
Ethernet ports and their corresponding network device names is opposite. For this
adapter, the port nearest to the motherboard will appear as the first network
interface.
Chelsio DPDK Driver for Linux
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