Yes, DPDK can be used to promote underlying commercial hardware or software, as long as it is fair and not intrusive. Please promote more products by becoming an Open Source contributor ;)
2017-03-20 22:30, Hobywan Kenoby: > If AVP was an upstream device of Qemu or Linux kernel that would be very > natural to have a DPDK PMD (setting aside my comments on a preferred single > virtual device). > > As far as I know this is not the case. > > Because of that, one could see the AVP PMD as a way to leverage open source > to promote proprietary technology. That is the heart of the problem with the > proposal. > > So I would recommend waiting for an upstream qemu support to consider AVP in > DPDK . > > FF > ________________________________ > From: dev <dev-boun...@dpdk.org> on behalf of Michael S. Tsirkin > <m...@redhat.com> > Sent: Friday, March 17, 2017 2:52:06 PM > To: Thomas Monjalon > Cc: Wiles, Keith; Jason Wang; Vincent JARDIN; Stephen Hemminger; O'Driscoll, > Tim; Legacy, Allain (Wind River); Yigit, Ferruh; dev@dpdk.org; Jolliffe, Ian > (Wind River); Markus Armbruster; Stefan Hajnoczi > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 00/17] Wind River Systems AVP PMD vs > virtio? - ivshmem is back > > On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 09:48:38AM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > I think there is one interesting technological point in this thread. > > We are discussing about IVSHMEM but its support by Qemu is confused. > > This feature is not in the MAINTAINERS file of Qemu. > > Please Qemu maintainers, what is the future of IVSHMEM? > > You should try asking this question on the qemu mailing list. Looking at > archives, Jan Kiszka was the last one who expressed some interest in > this device. > > -- > MST
