[dpdk-dev] using dpdk without glibc

Thomas Monjalon thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com
Sun Feb 23 21:33:53 CET 2014


Hi,

23/02/2014 11:48, Nulik Nol :
> I need to develop an application to forward packets, but it must not
> use GLIBC. It will not have malloc(), printf() and other functions
> except syscalls. What files should I copy from DPDK distribution that
> would allow me to manage the rings ? Is this doable or it will require
> rewriting all the code, and probably I should write my own light DPDK
> for this purpose ?

It seems a big challenge.
I think you should be more precise describing the libraries you need. Do you 
need only rings ? For which PMD ?

By the way, what's wrong with glibc ?

-- 
Thomas


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