Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH 5/5] mk/windows: add virtio-net PMD

[William Tu <u9012063@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 10:01 AM Dmitry Kozlyuk
<dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2021-08-14 08:55 (UTC-0700), William Tu:
> > Hi Dmitry,
> >
> > I'm looking at this patch and have some questions.
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 10:08 PM Dmitry Kozlyuk
> > <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk@gmail.com>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c            |   4 +
> > >  kernel/windows/netuio/netuio.inf              |   6 +
> > >  lib/librte_eal/windows/eal/eal.c              |   4 +
> >
> > Why do we need these change below?
>
> 1. At the time of the patch there was no dpdk-kmods repo.
>
> 2. The patch is for dpdk-draft-windows repo,
>    which was using Vistual Studio projects instead of meson.
>
> > I thought to add a new Windows driver support, we only need to
> > compile the drivers/net/xxx, and add the device ID to netuio.inf,
> > at the dpdk-kmod repo?
>
> Yes.
> Particularly for virtio it would also be required to support reading PCI
> config space in bus/pci/windows (netuio already provides the support).
>
Now I understand, thanks. William