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From: Vincent JARDIN <vincent.jardin@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 00/25] Support VFD on i40e
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Le 10/01/2017 à 22:32, Ferruh Yigit a écrit :
> What do you think to continue high level DPDK PF discussion in mail
> thread for other pathset? So that we can continue to work on this one.

First, we need to assess or not if it makes sense to go toward Linux 
kernel or DPDK based PF. If Linux kernel is used, then DPDK does not 
need VFD related modifications.

VFD demonstrates that there are some needs of features, but it pushes 
the new path of a fork of PF drivers.