On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 12:39:17 +0000 Michael Lilja <m...@napatech.com> wrote:
> 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. > > Thanks, > Michael The downside is that any proprietary requirement means code is untestable by any CI or infrastructure. Therefore it is likely to be broken.
