[dpdk-dev] 17.02 Roadmap

[Thomas Monjalon]

2016-10-14 10:29, Stephen Hemminger:
> It seems like a lot of these feature are focused too narrowly on exposing
> features that exist on specific Intel hardware. The concept of a general
> purpose Dataplane Development Kit is that applications can be written that
> have a generic API (like any operating system) that will run on a wide
> variety of hardware.  This concept seems to getting lost as the DPDK is
> becoming more of a platform for exposing what ever cool hardware features
> exist.
> 
> I would propose that no new feature be allowed in the DPDK unless it
> can be supported on all device types. Yes that means you have to build
> and test software emulation layers for all other devices. The current
> model is more of a hardware test bed.

Thanks for the reminder Stephen. It is good goal.
I think the software emulation idea is finding its way.
About forbidding new hardware feature without emulation support,
it has to be discussed.