2015-07-06 22:28, leeopop: > This is a native UIO-based PMD for Mellanox ConnectX-3 devices. > It uses a persistent memory library in order to provide a persistent > scartch area for the mlx4 HCA driver.
What is the benefit of this UIO approach compared to the OFED based driver? > We release the driver itself under BSD license, but to use it for > commercial products, you may have to re-implement the separated GPL sources. The GPL sources are not really separated. The DPDK libraries must be BSD-licensed. > The GPL affected source codes reside in the mlnx_uio/kernel directory. It seems that a large part of the GPL driver was also copied in mlnx_uio/mlnx/. Given that you are dropping a huge GPL codebase (whose you don't own the copyright) in a BSD library, and that you didn't give your real name in the signed-off line, it is NACK.
