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Hello Helin,

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 2:43 AM, Zhang, Helin <helin.zhang@intel.com> wrote=
:

>  Hi Thomas
>
>
>
> Yes, your proposal it the perfect one, also the most complicated one. I
> was thinking of that one as well, but we did not have enough time for tha=
t
> in our 1.8 timeframe.
>
> In the long run, I agree with you to implement EAL function to access PCI
> config space directly. I will try to put it in our plan as soon as
> possible, if no objections.
>
>
>
> For now, I think the quickest and easiest way might be to write out a
> script of using =E2=80=98setpci=E2=80=99, the Linux command. It is harmle=
ss for our code
> base, and we can remove it when we have better choice. What do you think?
>
>
>
> Thank you very much for the great comments on this topic! I really like i=
t!
>

Did you make any progress on this ?
Actually, looking at Stephen patches (
http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/3024/), I think we could go with this
approach once both uio and vfio are fine.


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David Marchand