[dpdk-dev] DPDK on Xen maintenance

[Jan Blunck]

On Di, 2016-07-12 at 11:34 +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> We are facing some issues with Xen dom0.
> Some were fixed in RC2:
> 	https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__dpdk.org_ml
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> and there still have some other issues.
> 
> It seems Xen is becoming less attractive:
> 	- we do not have a lot of test reports or feedbacks
> 	- there is no maintainer for DPDK on Xen
> 	- we are still waiting for the Xen netfront PMD
> 

Although progress is slow I'm still working on upstreaming the Xen
netfront PMD. I will continue to maintain it afterwards of course.


> I wonder wether it still makes sense to maintain this code or not?
> In case of positive reply, it would be nice to have the name of
> someone responsible for this code, i.e. a maintainer.
> 
> Thanks