[dpdk-dev] Napatech pmd

[Michael Lilja]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> Sent: 31. marts 2020 14:45
> To: Michael Lilja <ml at napatech.com>
> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com>; Finn Christensen
> <fc at napatech.com>; dev at dpdk.org; Bent Kuhre <bk at napatech.com>
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Napatech pmd
> 
> 31/03/2020 14:39, Michael Lilja:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I appreciate the discussion. It would of course be nice if vendors
> could be allowed to use external libraries/drivers and have a DPDK
> shim but I also understand the concern.
> >
> > We have started the movement towards an open source variant of our
> NICs driver so that upstreaming to DPDK (and kernel) will be possible.
> The downside is that not all NICs will be supported, it is simply not
> worth the effort rewriting a legacy codebase.
> 
> That's a very good news!
> When do you plan to start upstreaming?

That is a good question... Soon hopefully, it is a work in progress :D

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