Re: [PATCH] regex/cn9k: remove rule compiler

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

25/06/2023 22:57, Stephen Hemminger:
> On Wed, 21 Jun 2023 21:03:00 +0530
> Jerin Jacob <jerinjacobk@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 7:36 PM Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > Nobody knows how to build the feature.
> > > When the dependency "rxp_compiler" is found,
> > > the header file is not available:
> > >
> > > drivers/regex/cn9k/cn9k_regexdev_compiler.c:12:10: fatal error:
> > >         rxp-compiler.h: No such file or directory
> > >
> > > It seems that it depends on a proprietay library.  
> > 
> > Yes. it depended on proprietary library owned by NVIDIA now. Not sure
> > Marvell has rights to publish it "freely available".
> > In order to avoid forking this library, better option to make this
> > library as public. Also, it looks like the library itself won't have
> > proper installation procedures that is the
> > reason for conflict as documented here in
> > https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1232.
> 
> Interesting. Then what about the GPU support which currently requires
> proprietary NVIDIA CUDA library

CUDA can be downloaded.
It is even packaged in many Linux distributions.