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+..  SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+    Copyright(c) 2017 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
+
+
+HINIC Poll Mode Driver
+======================
+
+The hinic PMD (librte_pmd_hinic) provides poll mode driver support
+for 25Gbps Huawei Intelligent PCIE Network Adapters based on the
+Huawei Ethernet Controller Hi1822.
+
+
+Features
+--------
+
+- Multi arch support: x86_64, ARMv8.
+- Multiple queues for TX and RX
+- Receiver Side Scaling (RSS)
+- MAC/VLAN filtering
+- Checksum offload
+- TSO offload
+- Promiscuous mode
+- Port hardware statistics
+- Link state information
+- Link flow control
+- Scattered and gather for TX and RX
+- SR-IOV - Partially supported at this point, VFIO only
+- VLAN filter and VLAN offload
+- Allmulticast mode
+- MTU update
+- Unicast MAC filter
+- Multicast MAC filter
+- Flow API
+- Set Link down or up
+- FW version
+- LRO
+
+Prerequisites
+-------------
+
+- Learning about Huawei Hi1822 IN200 Series Intelligent NICs using
+  `<https://e.huawei.com/en/products/cloud-computing-dc/servers/pcie-ssd/in-card>`_.
+
+- Getting the latest product documents and software supports using
+  `<https://support.huawei.com/enterprise/en/intelligent-accelerator-components/in500-solution-pid-23507369>`_.
+
+- Follow the DPDK :ref:`Getting Started Guide for Linux <linux_gsg>` to setup the basic DPDK environment.
+
+Pre-Installation Configuration
+------------------------------
+
+Config File Options
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The following options can be modified in the ``config`` file.
+
+- ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_HINIC_PMD`` (default ``y``)
+
+Driver compilation and testing
+------------------------------
+
+Refer to the document :ref:`compiling and testing a PMD for a NIC <pmd_build_and_test>`
+for details.
+
+Limitations or Known issues
+---------------------------
+Build with ICC is not supported yet.
+X86-32, Power8, ARMv7 and BSD are not supported yet.