contributing to dpdk

contributing to dpdk

[Matt Goralka]

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Hi,

My name is Matt Goralka.  I'm interested in contributing to dpdk and am
wondering if you are taking people and have a few questions if someone can
help get me started.  I have a computer hardware engineering degree and
experience in web dev so not totally starting from scratch.

-How do you guys get newbies started?  Can you kind of get me going?
-I have a gaming laptop with a Ryzen 7 chip and NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 5060
chip.  Would it be enough to virtualize linux?


Thanks guys, looking forward to hopefully working with you!

-Matt

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Re: contributing to dpdk

[Bruce Richardson]

On Sun, Dec 07, 2025 at 02:11:15AM -0600, Matt Goralka wrote:
>    Hi,
>    My name is Matt Goralka.  I'm interested in contributing to dpdk and am
>    wondering if you are taking people and have a few questions if someone
>    can help get me started.  I have a computer hardware engineering degree
>    and experience in web dev so not totally starting from scratch.
>    -How do you guys get newbies started?  Can you kind of get me going?
>    -I have a gaming laptop with a Ryzen 7 chip and NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 5060
>    chip.  Would it be enough to virtualize linux?
>    Thanks guys, looking forward to hopefully working with you!
>    -Matt

Hi Matt,

new contributions and contributors always welcome! To get started, I'd
suggest getting linux up and running on whatever hardware you have and then
build DPDK as described in our linux getting-started-guide doc[1]. Beyond
that, for questions I'd recommend joining the DPDK slack channel as linked
on our contribute page [2].

Regards,
/Bruce

[1] http://doc.dpdk.org/guides/linux_gsg/index.html
[2] https://core.dpdk.org/contribute/