Hi,

> On 25 Jan 2017, at 06:14, Saxena, Nitin <nitin.sax...@cavium.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi VPP developers,
> 
> I am new to VPP and we want to add support of some Cavium NICs/non-NICs in 
> VPP. Our existing custom user space PF driver has VFIO NO IOMMU support to 
> get MSIX interrupts from device. It seems VFIO support in VPP can be used via 
> dpdk only. So my question 
> 1) Is there any plan to add vfio support in VPP itself like UIO in future?

I don't think anybody was planning to do that in the near future, but it should 
be quite easy.
Let me know if you would like to work on it, I can help.

> 2) Is it allowed to upstream non-NIC/PF user space driver in VPP? As it seems 
> dpdk do not allow PF user space drivers to upstream into dpdk. Also in dpdk 
> currently lacks non-nic support (like librte_crypto)

I don't see any issue with that. If it depends on external software, then it 
can be built as external plugin.

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