On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 9:20 AM, Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at redhat.com>
wrote:

>
> Yup. Set CONFIG_RTE_EAL_PMD_PATH to the path where your PMDs are
> installed. Note that since the plugin autoloader in DPDK doesn't make
> assumptions about names, it'll try to load *everything* in that path, so
> you don't want it pointing to eg /usr/lib directly.
>
> What we have on Fedora and RHEL is a /usr/lib(64)/dpdk-pmds/ directory
> with symlinks to the actual pmds which reside in /usr/lib(64) because some
> of them provide actual API.


Great, thanks Panu!
Will create something around that now.
The symlink is about what came to my mind before reading your second
sentence - so good with that.


-- 
Christian Ehrhardt
Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd

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