Re: Beyond DPDK 2.0

[Luke Gorrie <luke-vEt0keKvJLw@public.gmane.org>]

Hi Bruce,

On 8 May 2015 at 11:06, Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> For the Intel NIC drivers, the hardware setup part used in DPDK is based
> off
> the other Intel drivers for other OS's. The code you are interested in
> should
> therefore be contained within the subfolders off each individual PMD. As
> you point
> out below, the mbuf specific part is only present in the files in the
> top-level
> PMD folder with the DPDK-specific RX/TX and queue setup routines.


Interesting!

How could one embed these Intel drivers (igb, ixgbe, i40e, ...) into new
programs?

If there is documentation, a platform-agnostic master repository, etc, that
would be really interesting.

I have the impression as an outsider that the various incarnations of these
drivers (Linux, FreeBSD, DPDK) are loosely synchronized forks maintained at
considerable effort by each project. If there is actually a common core
that is easy to adopt, I am interested!

(If dpdk-devel is the wrong mailing list for this discussion then perhaps
you could reply with Cc: to a more suitable one and I will subscribe there.)

Cheers,
-Luke