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Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 23:04:21 +0200
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22/05/2018 22:56, Alex Ciobotaru:
> Guys, thank you for the info so far (sorry about the HTML thing).
> I will put some further insight/closure into this thread.
> So, my query started from the fact that when developing a new EAL
> in DPDK using an external toolchain and/or for a new OS,
> the "common" (generic) part of the EAL is actually Linux/BSD bound:
> 
> ...// START OF EXCERPT
> dpdk/build/include/rte_eal.h:15:19: fatal error:
> sched.h: No such file or directory

So you want to port DPDK to a non-POSIX OS?

If it is considered an interesting OS, we could move some POSIX parts
out of the common files.