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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 0/6] Restructure EAL device model for bus
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On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 10:08 AM, Thomas Monjalon
<thomas.monjalon@6wind.com> wrote:
> 2016-11-20 16:30, David Marchand:
>> For a first patchset, I would see:
>> - introduce the rte_bus object. In rte_eal_init, for each bus, we call
>> the scan method. Then, for each bus, we find the appropriate
>> rte_driver using the bus match method then call the probe method. If
>> the probe succeeds, the rte_device points to the associated
>> rte_driver,
>> - migrate the pci scan code to a pci bus (scan looks at sysfs for
>> linux / ioctl for bsd + devargs for blacklist / whitelist ?), match is
>> the same at what is done in rte_eal_pci_probe_one_driver() at the
>> moment,
>> - migrate the vdev init code to a vdev bus (scan looks at devargs):
>> this is new, we must create rte_device objects for vdev drivers to use
>> later
>
> I think it can be 3 patchsets.
> Who can work on the vdev part please?

I'll take a look.