12/02/2022 15:01, Yanling Song: > On Fri, 21 Jan 2022 10:22:10 +0000 > Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com> wrote: > > > On 1/21/2022 9:27 AM, Yanling Song wrote: > > > On Wed, 19 Jan 2022 16:56:52 +0000 > > > Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com> wrote: > > > > > >> On 12/30/2021 6:08 AM, Yanling Song wrote: > > >>> The patchsets introduce SPNIC driver for Ramaxel's SPNxx serial > > >>> NIC cards into DPDK 22.03. Ramaxel Memory Technology is a company > > >>> which supply a lot of electric products: storage, communication, > > >>> PCB... SPNxxx is a serial PCIE interface NIC cards: > > >>> SPN110: 2 PORTs *25G > > >>> SPN120: 4 PORTs *25G > > >>> SPN130: 2 PORTs *100G > > >>> > > >> > > >> Hi Yanling, > > >> > > >> As far as I can see hnic (from Huawei) and this spnic drivers are > > >> alike, what is the relation between these two? > > > > > > It is hard to create a brand new driver from scratch, so we > > > referenced to hinic driver when developing spnic. > > > > That is OK, but based on the familiarity of the code you may consider > > keeping the original code Copyright, I didn't investigate in > > that level but cc'ed hinic maintainers for info. > > Also cc'ed Hemant for guidance.
What is the percentage of familiarity in the code? > Sorry for late reponse since it was Spring Festival and I was in > vacation, just back to work. > > Hemant gave the guidance already, but we do not want to keep another > company's copyright in our code. > How should we modify code so that the > code meet DPDK's requirment and can be accepted with our copyright > only? If you don't want to keep a copyright, don't copy the code. > > But my question was more related to the HW, is there any relation > > between the hinic HW and spnic HW? Like one is derived from other > > etc... > > I'm not clear what's the relation between hinic/spnic hw since we do > not know what's the hinic hw. Do you mean you are copying a driver and its design choices without understanding what it does?
