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From: Olivier MATZ <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
To: Antti Kantee <pooka@iki.fi>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: add support for shared object drivers
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:54:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51B88BA7.9080605@6wind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51B87065.2020600@iki.fi>

Hi Antti,

>  > For instance, testpmd -d librte_pmd_xxx.so can be used to enable xxx
> driver
>  > support on testpmd without any recompilation of testpmd.
>
> What's the use case?

Load any other pmd driver dynamically (ex: mellanox driver)

> Unless I'm missing something, testpmd still needs
> an explicit rte_pmd_foo_init() call. It's of course not difficult to
> sprinkle some __attribute__((constructor))'s into the pmd's

Yes, you need to do it in the pmd's constructor.

Olivier

  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-12 14:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-12  7:51 Thomas Monjalon
2013-06-12 11:55 ` Olivier MATZ
2013-06-12 15:12   ` Thomas Monjalon
     [not found] ` <51B87027.40703@cs.hut.fi>
2013-06-12 12:58   ` Antti Kantee
2013-06-12 14:54     ` Olivier MATZ [this message]
2013-06-12 15:12       ` Antti Kantee

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