31/03/2020 14:39, Michael Lilja: > Hi, > > I appreciate the discussion. It would of course be nice if vendors could be > allowed to use external libraries/drivers and have a DPDK shim but I also > understand the concern. > > We have started the movement towards an open source variant of our NICs > driver so that upstreaming to DPDK (and kernel) will be possible. The > downside is that not all NICs will be supported, it is simply not worth the > effort rewriting a legacy codebase.
That's a very good news! When do you plan to start upstreaming?