Hello, [This message was previously sent to "contact us" on 01.org... they directed me to post here instead... ]
My company is developing secure networking technology and we are currently building a prototype of our system using the dpdk as the underlying communications platform. So far so good. We are interested in finding out how much we can decrease the attack surface of our application by going full bare metal.. (i.e. sans OS). The mention of a bare metal version of dpdk is one of the contributing factors for our working on our prototype. Can you please provide any information on the dpdk bare metal version? Such as: 1) is it in fact - a zero OS version or is it based on a RTOS such as those from Wind River. 2) Does the bare metal version only support one kind of processor family such as i7, or is it possible to target atom or arm with it as well? 3) what are the licensing terms for it? 4) are royalties required? Thank you for your help in resolving these questions. Sincerely, Daniel Chapiesky
