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[77.134.203.184]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id u42sm13004447wrc.1.2017.02.17.05.40.45 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 17 Feb 2017 05:40:45 -0800 (PST) From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com> To: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com> Cc: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>, Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>, Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>, dev@dpdk.org, shreyansh.jain@nxp.com, john.mcnamara@intel.com, jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 14:40:44 +0100 Message-ID: <13170922.QrZ7cG92tU@xps13> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (Linux/4.5.4-1-ARCH; KDE/4.14.11; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20170217121358.GA135568@bricha3-MOBL3.ger.corp.intel.com> References: <1485172803-17288-1-git-send-email-hemant.agrawal@nxp.com> <eae7dd92-1644-29f8-7db3-a1da2d414b40@intel.com> <20170217121358.GA135568@bricha3-MOBL3.ger.corp.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCHv7 00/47] NXP DPAA2 PMD X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions <dev.dpdk.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://dpdk.org/ml/options/dev>, <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/> List-Post: <mailto:dev@dpdk.org> List-Help: <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://dpdk.org/ml/listinfo/dev>, <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 13:40:48 -0000 2017-02-17 12:13, Bruce Richardson: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 11:34:43AM +0000, Ferruh Yigit wrote: > > On 2/16/2017 1:27 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 08:22:49AM -0500, Neil Horman wrote: > > >> On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 06:08:59AM +0530, Hemant Agrawal wrote: > > >>> Prerequisites: > > >>> - For running the PMD, NXP's SoC (board) and SDK (software/BSP) is required. > > >>> Information about obtaining relevant software is available in the docs > > >>> as part of the patch. > > >> > > >> NAK. The SDK requires registration to obtain, and appears to be non-open > > >> source. This driver is unmaintainable given that. > > >> > > > Hi Hemant, > > > > > > can you perhaps clarify things here. What is the requirement to: > > > * build the driver/DPDK for the platform > > > * run applications using DPDK on the platform > > > > > > Also what is the license/availability for those requirements. > > > > Hi Bruce, Hemant, Neil, Thomas, > > > > I did able to compile the driver without the SDK. It looks like that SDK > > is a runtime dependency. > > > > What is the DPDK requirement here? > > If it is not breaking the build, this PMD provides it. > > > If it builds without an SDK dependency I'd be happy enough to see this > merged into DPDK. Since I can't run it without the correct hardware, I > don't see needing the correct runtime software being a difficulty too. > So long as we can compile this, we can check for breakages in it due to > refactoring in other parts of DPDK, like we do for other drivers. As > with those other drivers, it's up to the maintainers/vendors to do the > functional checking for additional issues. Nobody is likely to have the > hardware to functionality test all drivers in DPDK anyway. +1, I agree with Bruce