On Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:57:52 +0100 Bruce Richardson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Part 3: Prototype of an eal_cfg library > > Once we have the internal C API to init eal using a struct > rte_eal_user_cfg, we can create new libraries which provide alternate > ways to build up the user_cfg and initialize DPDK. Patches 37-44 have a > rough example of such a library. > > - The lib allows a user to create an opaque rte_eal_user_cfg struct, > which can then be modified by APIs to get/set various parameters > before calling rte_cfg_eal_init(). > - An alternative way to do things (not prototyped), may be to have a > library that creates an eal_user_cfg struct based on the contents of > an ini file using the configfile library. > [Both these options could be used in parallel. Note too that both have > no ABI implications for adding new flags, or making old ones no-ops!] Ideally cfg would be ini file. But the existing ini file parser has lots of issues and is really not that usable. Compared to other equivalent non-DPDK libraries.
