On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 12:06:18PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > 2016-11-11 04:49, Tan, Jianfeng: > > Hi Thomas and Konrad, > > > > On 11/11/2016 2:59 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > >> 2016-11-07 07:38, Jianfeng Tan: > > >>> As some users are still using xen as the hypervisor, I suggest to > > >>> continue support for xen in DPDK. And from 16.11, I will be the > > >>> maintainer of all xen-related files. > > >>> > > >>> Signed-off-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng....@intel.com> > > >> Applied > > >> > > >> Please Jianfeng, could you start your new role by sending a status > > >> of Xen dom0 support in DPDK? I think there are some issues in latest > > >> releases. > > > > Yes, I'm on this. And hope to send out update in the next week. > > > > > Pls also CC me and xen-de...@lists.xenproject.org if possible. > > > > Glad to do that. > > > > Thanks, > > Jianfeng > > Any news about Xen dom0 status in DPDK? > > I think there is not enough interest for Xen dom0 in the DPDK community. > Last time we talked about, it was because of a severe bug which is not > fixed yet: > http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-July/044207.html > http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-July/044376.html > > The request (6 month ago) was to give more time for feedbacks: > http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-July/044847.html > > Is it time now to officially remove Dom0 support?
So we do have an prototype implementation of netback but it is waiting for review of xen-devel to the spec. And I believe the implementation does utilize some of the dom0 parts of code in DPDK.
