Are we discussing solutions before we have agreed on the problem?
On 8 August 2014 01:52, Wiles, Roger Keith <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Taras, > > Looks like this maybe a possible direction, but I feel adding some init > support into ODP is a good thing. > > *Keith **Wiles*, Principal Technologist with CTO office, *Wind River *mobile > 972-213-5533 > > On Aug 7, 2014, at 3:08 PM, Taras Kondratiuk <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On 08/07/2014 10:36 PM, Wiles, Roger Keith wrote: > > > *Keith **Wiles*, Principal Technologist with CTO office, *Wind River* > mobile 972-213-5533 > On Aug 7, 2014, at 2:21 PM, Taras Kondratiuk > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected] > <[email protected]>>> wrote: > > > From implementation point it is not an issue to parse configuration > strings, but it just feels wrong. The fact that DPDK does it doesn't > mean it is a good approach. > > I'd prefer to pass generic parameters via structure to odp_init() and > let implementation to figure out how to get other stuff if needed. > In case of Linux-based implementations there are many ways to do it. > > > I do understand, but DPDK is inited in this fashion and we would need to > supply a argc/argv parameters to call its init routine. Now it is being > done in the odp_init_dpdk() function and it can not support all of the > args. We need to pass args to the SDK in some way and argc/argv is the > best solution for DPDK. Now we can do as I suggested by adding > ‘—sdk-args=“”’ to the command line or the odp_init_dpdk() routine will > need to get the values some place. It just seems similar to add them to > command line, even if ODP is not really launched from a command line. > > > The first approach that comes to my mind is an environment variable. > > DPDK_CMD_LINE='some configs' odp_foobar > > then linux-dpdk can getevn('DPDK_CMD_LINE') and everybody happy. > API is not changed and DPDK have its configuration. > > > > _______________________________________________ > lng-odp mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/lng-odp > >
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