On 01/29/2014 05:34 PM, Vincent JARDIN wrote:
Thomas,
First and easy answer: it is open source, so anyone can recompile. So,
what's the issue?
I'm talking from a pure distribution perspective here: Requiring to
recompile all DPDK based applications to distribute a bugfix or to
add support for a new PMD is not ideal.
So ideally OVS would have the possibility to link against the shared
library long term.
I get lost: do you mean ABI + API toward the PMDs or towards the
applications using the librte ?
Towards the PMDs is more straight forward at first so it seems logical
to focus on that first.
A stable API and ABI for librte seems required as well long term as
DPDK does offer shared libraries but I realize that this is a stretch
goal in the initial phase.
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