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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] app/testpmd: link with virtio PMD when using
	shared libraries
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 14:16:46 +0100
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30/11/2017 12:21, Timothy Redaelli:
> Just a little question: if testpmd loads the pmds dynamically using
> dlopen, why in app/test-pmd/Makefile some PMD are linked at
> build time?

Some PMD have an API. That's why they need to be directly linked
by the applications calling these driver-specific functions.