From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-yw0-f179.google.com (mail-yw0-f179.google.com [209.85.161.179]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE24C2B97 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2016 09:27:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-yw0-f179.google.com with SMTP id i129so42754500ywe.2 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2016 00:27:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=canonical-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=Qb3dMLr9xNX2auJbtBOZCLo/Hka3bUTmKblzrA79/gE=; b=h8zBL6cjIcnOCj6PaPRpuPFaY1wMQt3eWCIPJ2kLz/XEdV5Tfx3vrcpZScf/sSA6xg kSgI7HFbseiYy8AsNa2K/DNKiHVblntoAp/p5yHa1oMavkjjb0RFrT6lm7dipSbh2ns9 eqpDr0fkWXRXWVQoZpMoROxAESe8jcdV+sgO0zIxQqhpE0BF277qxdBbjoEsm8+2BzVS Vc8hxkAM83AFFtWt6gzBh83P8pgJKfhm03eG/4AMwancTKjJOcUNJnSl1dnPZ/jwIn9D 86eDFcNVcDWslgnCUVVYnlL30qdJR+IUdvUxo1HUTagWi/UpljMQ1l9ySP/mnq8xJjz6 x0Eg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=Qb3dMLr9xNX2auJbtBOZCLo/Hka3bUTmKblzrA79/gE=; b=lwaUr7DayP0EP8/3ysGRGH6+372tBIZXRUvRiAnIVvwUd919np5UIc7ETHIj9JpUgi 7T6xRaawPxJNsbxcF4JUYPyt9GK6fuwOJpQiHxVbIMEd6BF76kcv/iec8EWypAQklA+C QswFSuW7M35ZxFz6TgOGwYeAbFQLLIAf2lYPsMV7+0R/eoyFVr3lmmDHnvlVMbIaZP79 DnTyWV1g4H4m0QYdLM0IT7IZ0ZMJe3ezuJJMLcLBP+XA1TK7jmwfF9uNXCtoUrqbvzS3 LD5jl9/tVcvoAGq/jO5IufP7pinnVMEDEJ5CF+DtPDsvaKm4y67Vwwr+mqVeamAWHnLp Hy3Q== X-Gm-Message-State: AA6/9RkTexRJ8UudOyMnYgRhoJ2YrYzojtUgzs8OjwQXl6Iw+GAwAjJ3XXG8KQWFj3NLQVt7dG/MYLnI59R+BlAl X-Received: by 10.13.242.129 with SMTP id b123mr22367ywf.36.1475134039238; Thu, 29 Sep 2016 00:27:19 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.129.119.196 with HTTP; Thu, 29 Sep 2016 00:26:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <45bb513b-660d-ba74-44cc-0761c7068df6@redhat.com> References: <45bb513b-660d-ba74-44cc-0761c7068df6@redhat.com> From: Christian Ehrhardt Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 09:26:48 +0200 Message-ID: To: Panu Matilainen Cc: Daniele Di Proietto , James Page , dev , Luca Boccassi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.15 Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Did we reduce unnecessary linkage too well? X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 07:27:20 -0000 On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 9:20 AM, Panu Matilainen wrote: > > Yup. Set CONFIG_RTE_EAL_PMD_PATH to the path where your PMDs are > installed. Note that since the plugin autoloader in DPDK doesn't make > assumptions about names, it'll try to load *everything* in that path, so > you don't want it pointing to eg /usr/lib directly. > > What we have on Fedora and RHEL is a /usr/lib(64)/dpdk-pmds/ directory > with symlinks to the actual pmds which reside in /usr/lib(64) because some > of them provide actual API. Great, thanks Panu! Will create something around that now. The symlink is about what came to my mind before reading your second sentence - so good with that. -- Christian Ehrhardt Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server Canonical Ltd