On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 11:48 PM, Luca Boccassi <luca.bocca...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there an OSS version besides the Mellanox > one? If there is and they are API/ABI compatible then it should be fine. > Not sure if my former mail was lost. But TL;DR - there is one but not compatible. IMHO for enablement in distros they need to work on MLX in DPDK to work on the free libs. > If there is not, I'm afraid in Debian it is not allowed by the rules to > have a dependency from a package in the main (free) archive to a > non-free one (I'm not sure about Ubuntu, Christian?) > There would similar rules (from Main not to anything else), but as the special MLNX OFED isn't available at all that is not the main issue anyway. > However we do already support a user-supplied DPDK config file at build > time (by simply setting the env var > DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="dpdk_config=/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 Canonical Ltd
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