From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: leeopop <dlrmsghd@gmail.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2] Native uio-based PMD for Mellanox ConnectX-3 devices
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2015 16:17:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3865893.mD3C20oiXL@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1436189297-7780-1-git-send-email-dlrmsghd@gmail.com>
2015-07-06 22:28, leeopop:
> This is a native UIO-based PMD for Mellanox ConnectX-3 devices.
> It uses a persistent memory library in order to provide a persistent
> scartch area for the mlx4 HCA driver.
What is the benefit of this UIO approach compared to the OFED based driver?
> We release the driver itself under BSD license, but to use it for
> commercial products, you may have to re-implement the separated GPL sources.
The GPL sources are not really separated.
The DPDK libraries must be BSD-licensed.
> The GPL affected source codes reside in the mlnx_uio/kernel directory.
It seems that a large part of the GPL driver was also copied in mlnx_uio/mlnx/.
Given that you are dropping a huge GPL codebase (whose you don't own the copyright)
in a BSD library, and that you didn't give your real name in the signed-off line,
it is NACK.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-06 14:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-06 13:28 leeopop
2015-07-06 13:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/2] eal/persistent: new library to hold memory region after program exit leeopop
2015-07-06 14:34 ` Avi Kivity
2015-07-06 14:41 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-07-06 19:19 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-07-06 13:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] mlnx_uio: new poll mode driver leeopop
2015-07-06 14:17 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2015-07-06 15:57 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/2] Native uio-based PMD for Mellanox ConnectX-3 devices Keunhong Lee
2015-07-06 16:14 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-07-06 17:55 ` Keunhong Lee
2015-07-07 6:50 ` Olga Shern
2015-07-07 7:02 ` Pavel Odintsov
2015-07-07 9:18 ` Olga Shern
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