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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, "O'Driscoll, Tim" <tim.odriscoll@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] 17.02 Roadmap
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 22:18:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1558423.Do1gQogAzQ@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161014102945.641b866e@xeon-e3>

2016-10-14 10:29, Stephen Hemminger:
> It seems like a lot of these feature are focused too narrowly on exposing
> features that exist on specific Intel hardware. The concept of a general
> purpose Dataplane Development Kit is that applications can be written that
> have a generic API (like any operating system) that will run on a wide
> variety of hardware.  This concept seems to getting lost as the DPDK is
> becoming more of a platform for exposing what ever cool hardware features
> exist.
> 
> I would propose that no new feature be allowed in the DPDK unless it
> can be supported on all device types. Yes that means you have to build
> and test software emulation layers for all other devices. The current
> model is more of a hardware test bed.

Thanks for the reminder Stephen. It is good goal.
I think the software emulation idea is finding its way.
About forbidding new hardware feature without emulation support,
it has to be discussed.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-14 20:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-10 16:13 O'Driscoll, Tim
2016-10-10 20:42 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-10-11  5:32   ` Yuanhan Liu
2016-10-11  9:09   ` O'Driscoll, Tim
2016-10-11 10:25   ` Pattan, Reshma
2016-10-11 22:36   ` De Lara Guarch, Pablo
2016-10-13  3:15   ` Tan, Jianfeng
2016-10-13 14:18   ` Hunt, David
2016-10-13 14:39     ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-10-14 17:29 ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-10-14 20:18   ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2016-10-16 20:21     ` O'Driscoll, Tim
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-08-31 10:31 O'Driscoll, Tim
2016-08-31 12:07 ` Thomas Monjalon

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