On Mon, 26 Jun 2023 09:16:32 +0200 Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> wrote:
> 25/06/2023 22:57, Stephen Hemminger: > > On Wed, 21 Jun 2023 21:03:00 +0530 > > Jerin Jacob <jerinjac...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 7:36 PM Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Nobody knows how to build the feature. > > > > When the dependency "rxp_compiler" is found, > > > > the header file is not available: > > > > > > > > drivers/regex/cn9k/cn9k_regexdev_compiler.c:12:10: fatal error: > > > > rxp-compiler.h: No such file or directory > > > > > > > > It seems that it depends on a proprietay library. > > > > > > Yes. it depended on proprietary library owned by NVIDIA now. Not sure > > > Marvell has rights to publish it "freely available". > > > In order to avoid forking this library, better option to make this > > > library as public. Also, it looks like the library itself won't have > > > proper installation procedures that is the > > > reason for conflict as documented here in > > > https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1232. > > > > Interesting. Then what about the GPU support which currently requires > > proprietary NVIDIA CUDA library > > CUDA can be downloaded. > It is even packaged in many Linux distributions. Thanks for the clarification. So the real issue is not that it needs a proprietary library but it is that the library is not available without special license. CUDA does require accepting a free license which may be a problem for some people who have lawyers who read the fine print. The policy about dependencies should be made more explicit in the documentation.
