1.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ 2 3=========================================================== 4Linux Base Virtual Function Driver for Intel(R) 1G Ethernet 5=========================================================== 6 7Intel Gigabit Virtual Function Linux driver. 8Copyright(c) 1999-2018 Intel Corporation. 9 10Contents 11======== 12- Identifying Your Adapter 13- Additional Configurations 14- Support 15 16This driver supports Intel 82576-based virtual function devices-based virtual 17function devices that can only be activated on kernels that support SR-IOV. 18 19SR-IOV requires the correct platform and OS support. 20 21The guest OS loading this driver must support MSI-X interrupts. 22 23For questions related to hardware requirements, refer to the documentation 24supplied with your Intel adapter. All hardware requirements listed apply to use 25with Linux. 26 27Driver information can be obtained using ethtool, lspci, and ifconfig. 28Instructions on updating ethtool can be found in the section Additional 29Configurations later in this document. 30 31NOTE: There is a limit of a total of 32 shared VLANs to 1 or more VFs. 32 33 34Identifying Your Adapter 35======================== 36For information on how to identify your adapter, and for the latest Intel 37network drivers, refer to the Intel Support website: 38https://www.intel.com/support 39 40 41Additional Features and Configurations 42====================================== 43 44ethtool 45------- 46The driver utilizes the ethtool interface for driver configuration and 47diagnostics, as well as displaying statistical information. The latest ethtool 48version is required for this functionality. Download it at: 49 50https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/network/ethtool/ 51 52 53Support 54======= 55For general information, go to the Intel support website at: 56 57https://www.intel.com/support/ 58 59or the Intel Wired Networking project hosted by Sourceforge at: 60 61https://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000 62 63If an issue is identified with the released source code on a supported kernel 64with a supported adapter, email the specific information related to the issue 65to e1000-devel@lists.sf.net. 66