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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] net/mlx5: lay groundwork for switch
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Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 12:33:04 -0700
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On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 04:35:05 +0000
Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com> wrote:

> Stephen,
> 
> Tuesday, July 24, 2018 3:51 AM, Stephen Hemminger:
> > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/6] net/mlx5: lay groundwork for switch
> > offloads
> > 
> > On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 22:40:47 +0100
> > Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com> wrote:  
> > >
> > > Just to highlight this new PMD level dependency to libmnl.
> > >
> > > tap pmd also uses netlink and vdev_netvsc also does nl communication,
> > > perhaps we can discuss unifying netlink usage around this new library.
> > >
> > >  
> > 
> > I am concerned that this won't work on FreeBSD and it will end up farther
> > behind.  
> 
> Can you elaborate? What is the reason it will not work?
>  
> 

There is no working netlink on FreeBSD.
There is no eBPF on FreeBSD.