cavium-cn6640-snic10e-octeon-ii-nic

The Cavium CN6640-SNIC10E is an out-of-tree Linux driver stack designed to enable operation of the Cavium CN6640 smart NIC as a dual 10 GbE host interface. This tool leverages a reverse-engineered shared-memory datapath over PCIe, allowing seamless bidirectional traffic handling with high throughput, while maintaining complete reversibility and no dependency on vendor firmware. Notable features include automated card initialization on boot and zero-copy data transfers for optimized performance.