Re: [dpdk-dev] Request to create a draft repo for Windows DPDK Patches

[Jason Messer <jmesser@microsoft.com>]

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Messer 
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2018 10:52 AM
To: users@dpdk.org
Cc: Kappler, Elizabeth M <elizabeth.m.kappler@intel.com>; Omar Cardona <ocardona@microsoft.com>; techboard@dpdk.org
Subject: Request to create a draft repo for Windows DPDK Patches

Hello -

As we reported at the DPDK Summit in November, we have brought support for several of the DPDK core libraries as well as a UIO driver for use on Windows. While there is still work to do (outlined below) we are requesting a draft repo be created to continue this work more openly in the community and to provide a forum to address any technical concerns. 

We expect the initial commit for this draft repo (branch tentatively named windpdk-v17.11-rc2) to include the following libraries. 
- librte_bus_pci
- librte_cmdline
- librte_distributor
- librte_eal
- librte_ether
- librte_hash
- librte_kvargs
- librte_lpm
- librte_mbuf
- librte_mempool
- librte_mempool_ring
- librte_pci
- librte_pmd_i40e (Intel PMD for Fortville NICs)
- librte_ring

Additionally, these two toy applications are building and running correctly:
- l2fwd
- l3fwd

Note: code is currently based on v17.11 release but we plan to quickly rebase so that we are current with the latest 18.02 release and eventually in-sync with upstream. 

Outstanding Issues:
- Confirm DPDK libraries and UIO driver build correctly with Clang on windows
- Update Visual Studio projects / solutions to reference clang compiler (currently expects ICC)
- [Tangential] Make DPDK C-Standards Compliant to not require specific GNU/GCC extensions
- Clean-up code and refactor to remove as many #ifdefs as possible
- Bring remaining DPDK core libraries to Windows and confirm
- Integrate with Meson build tool suite

Thanks,
Jason