From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Michael Lilja <ml@napatech.com>,
Finn Christensen <fc@napatech.com>, "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
Bent Kuhre <bk@napatech.com>,
"techboard@dpdk.org" <techboard@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Napatech pmd
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 21:59:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <21144485.BlLV05Wm1B@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200331195137.GB3858830@hmswarspite.think-freely.org>
31/03/2020 21:51, Neil Horman:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 07:58:45AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 12:39:17 +0000
> > Michael Lilja <ml@napatech.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I appreciate the discussion. It would of course be nice if vendors could be allowed to use external libraries/drivers and have a DPDK shim but I also understand the concern.
> > >
> > > We have started the movement towards an open source variant of our NICs driver so that upstreaming to DPDK (and kernel) will be possible. The downside is that not all NICs will be supported, it is simply not worth the effort rewriting a legacy codebase.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Michael
> >
> > The downside is that any proprietary requirement means code is untestable by
> > any CI or infrastructure. Therefore it is likely to be broken.
> >
>
> This. This is exactly my concern. Because the Napatech PMD is really just an
> interface to some proprietary code, no one outside of Napatech will have any
> insight or ability to test (or use) it.
Michael just said above they are writing an open source driver.
Please encourage this great move.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-31 19:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-08 13:08 Finn Christensen
2018-01-08 15:15 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-01-08 15:31 ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-01-09 10:43 ` Finn Christensen
2018-01-09 18:50 ` Neil Horman
2018-01-09 19:57 ` Michael Lilja
2018-01-09 20:20 ` Neil Horman
2018-01-09 20:36 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-01-09 21:21 ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-techboard] " Stephen Hemminger
2018-01-10 0:24 ` Neil Horman
2018-01-10 10:21 ` Bruce Richardson
2018-01-10 12:28 ` Neil Horman
2018-01-10 0:19 ` [dpdk-dev] " Neil Horman
2018-01-10 0:25 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-03-31 11:25 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-03-31 12:17 ` Neil Horman
2020-03-31 12:29 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-03-31 12:39 ` Michael Lilja
2020-03-31 12:45 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-03-31 13:08 ` Michael Lilja
2020-03-31 14:58 ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-03-31 19:51 ` Neil Horman
2020-03-31 19:59 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2020-04-01 12:40 ` Neil Horman
2020-03-31 19:56 ` Neil Horman
2020-03-31 20:07 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-04-01 12:49 ` Neil Horman
2020-04-17 2:54 ` Neil Horman
2020-04-17 4:38 ` Michael Lilja
2020-04-19 21:16 ` Neil Horman
2020-04-20 5:05 ` Michael Lilja
2020-12-11 8:36 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-12-11 8:41 ` Michael Lilja
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