31/03/2020 21:51, Neil Horman: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 07:58:45AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > 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. > > > > This. This is exactly my concern. Because the Napatech PMD is really just an > interface to some proprietary code, no one outside of Napatech will have any > insight or ability to test (or use) it.
Michael just said above they are writing an open source driver. Please encourage this great move.
