From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vincent JARDIN Subject: Re: hardware neutral driver for DPDK Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 22:26:21 +0100 Message-ID: <5318E7FD.9040807@6wind.com> References: <20140306212515.GA9390@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: dev-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20140306212515.GA9390-B26myB8xz7F8NnZeBjwnZQMhkBWG/bsMQH7oEaQurus@public.gmane.org> List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org Sender: "dev" librte_pmd_pcap http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/tree/lib/librte_pmd_pcap On 06/03/2014 22:25, Neil Horman wrote: > Hey there- > I'm interested in doing some work on the DPDK, specifically in creating > a driver backend that interfaces to the kernel using AF_PACKET rather than a > specific card for which a UIO or VFIO driver is available in kernel. I think it > would be nice for the DPDK to have a hardware agnostic driver for development > purposes. Before I begin I wanted to make sure that something like this hasn't > already been done. I don't see any clear reference to one in the git repo, but I > figured I'd ask just to be sure there wasn't some external project in the works > already. > > Thanks & Regards > Neil >