[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: add support for shared object drivers
Antti Kantee
pooka at iki.fi
Wed Jun 12 14:58:13 CEST 2013
On 12.06.2013 09:51, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> From: Damien Millescamps <damien.millescamps at 6wind.com>
>
> Add an option to specify libraries to be loaded before probing the PCI.
>
> 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? 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, but without
doing that (or something equivalent), what's the purpose of the change?
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