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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/8] net/mvneta: add neta PMD skeleton
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2018 09:19:50 -0700
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On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 17:01:27 +0200
Andrzej Ostruszka <amo@semihalf.com> wrote:

> +
> +- Custom Linux Kernel sources
> +
> +  .. code-block:: console
> +
> +     git clone https://github.com/MarvellEmbeddedProcessors/linux-marvell.git -b linux-4.4.52-armada-17.10
> +

In general the rule for DPDK is that drivers in upstream DPDK must have their OS support
components upstream. You are relying on an old Linux kernel which is maybe the way embedded
works, but it really needs to be upstream first.