and get a new security update - fine your extra
module will automatically be re-built for you and work - yeah.
That is e.g. what we do for the out-of-tree igb_uio module (to get it a bit
back to topic) - see
https://gerrit.fd.io/r/gitweb?p=deb_dpdk.git;a=blob;f=debian/dpdk
eneric does not support MSI or MSI-X interrupts, only legacy
>>> INTX.
>>> >
>>> > I know but do we really care?
>>> >
>>> >>
>>> >> The preference should always be to use VFIO. Even on systems without
=/path/to/config"), so the same package
> could be just rebuilt with a different config.
>
> Would this work for you?
>
Using that plus self-fetched MLNX OFED Libs is the smallest hurdle to take
when building for oneself.
--
Christian Ehrhardt
Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server
Ca
be fine - get your MLX_OFED
and build it.
But for enabling by default in Distributions we would require them to be
compatible with the public open libibverbs - which means either slow down
dpdk-mlx devel to use what is there or speed up libibverbs contributions
which neither of us can control.