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Porting Linux stack to DPDK opens up a licensing can of worms.
Linux code is GPLv2, and DPDK code is BSD. Any combination of the two would
end up
being covered by the Linux GPLv2 license.

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 11:30 PM, Vadim Suraev <vadim.suraev@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I've ported the Linux kernel TCP/IP stack to user space and integrated with
> DPDK,  the source and documentation and the roadmap will be published (and
> announced) within few days.
> Regards,
> Vadim
> On Sep 9, 2014 9:20 AM, "Matthew Hall" <mhall@mhcomputing.net> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 08:49:44AM +0800, zimeiw wrote:
> > > I have porting major FreeBSD tcp/ip stack to dpdk. new tcp/ip stack is
> > based
> > > on dpdk rte_mbuf, rte_ring, rte_memory and rte_table. it is faster to
> > > forwarding packets.
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > This is awesome work to be doing and badly needed to use DPDK for any L4
> > purposes where it is very limited. I'll be following your progress.
> >
> > You didn't mention your name, and compare your work with
> > https://github.com/rumpkernel/dpdk-rumptcpip/ , and talk about behavior
> /
> > performance, and how long you think it'll take. I'm curious if you can
> give
> > some more comments.
> >
> > I'm implementing an RX-side very basic stack myself... but I'm not using
> > BSD
> > standard APIs or doing TX-side like yours will have.
> >
> > Matthew.
> >
>