[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/6] Xen DOM0 runtime support

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 10:14:09 +0200
David Marchand <david.marchand at 6wind.com> wrote:

> Hello Stephen,
> 
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 2:44 AM, Stephen Hemminger <
> stephen at networkplumber.org> wrote:
> 
> > It should be possible to build a single application or library
> > that will work both in Xen and non-Xen environment. Any special
> > case handling should be done at runtime.
> >
> 
> This patchset looks good, but can you go a step further and completely
> remove the RTE_LIBRTE_XEN_DOM0 build option ?
> This requires some more work (igb_uio, app/test), but I think this is worth
> it all the more so as you are looking into it at the moment.

I was thinking that for people on embedded systems having
the build option (which stubs out support) was a good thing.