My main concern is about distributions having a DPDK package without NFP support.
Of course, distributions could make that package with NFP enabled, but I prefer to avoid that. There are other PMD enabled by default and it does not mean the NICs are there. On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 4:48 PM, Bruce Richardson < bruce.richard...@intel.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 04:43:11PM +0000, Ferruh Yigit wrote: > > On 1/13/2017 11:50 AM, Alejandro Lucero wrote: > > > Because using a NFP PMD requires specific BSP installed, the PMD > > > support was not the default option before. This was just for making > > > people aware of such dependency, since there is no need for such a > > > BSP for just compiling DPDK with NFP PMD support. > > > > Although NFP will compile fine, as far as I understand BSP dependency is > > still there. > > > > Thomas, > > > > What do you think, is compilation enough to be enabled by default? > > > > > > Although you haven't asked me, I think having it compiled by default is > ok, even if you can't run it without the BSP. Having it compiled means > that we can catch errors or problems with the driver sooner, e.g. when > doing updates across all drivers. > > /Bruce >
