On Wed, 29 Jan 2014 18:14:01 +0100 Thomas Graf <tgraf at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 01/29/2014 05:34 PM, Vincent JARDIN wrote: > > Thomas, > > > > First and easy answer: it is open source, so anyone can recompile. So, > > what's the issue? > > I'm talking from a pure distribution perspective here: Requiring to > recompile all DPDK based applications to distribute a bugfix or to > add support for a new PMD is not ideal. > > So ideally OVS would have the possibility to link against the shared > library long term. > > > I get lost: do you mean ABI + API toward the PMDs or towards the > > applications using the librte ? > > Towards the PMDs is more straight forward at first so it seems logical > to focus on that first. > > A stable API and ABI for librte seems required as well long term as > DPDK does offer shared libraries but I realize that this is a stretch > goal in the initial phase. I would hate to see the API/ABI nailed down. We have lots of bug fixes and new drivers that are ready to contribute, but most of them have some change to existing ABI.
