Hi Mark,
> -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Hatle [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 11:30 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: Tan, Raymond <[email protected]>; Wold, Saul > <[email protected]> > Subject: DPDK -- move to a separate sublayer > > I am looking at using the meta-intel version of DPDK for our customers, but > including all of meta-intel is problematic for me. (We currently have our own > dpdk layer and recipes -- which I'd like to get rid of.) > > The issue is that DPDK is not Intel specific. Other architectures, vendors > can > and do use DPDK for their components. Agree on this, in fact for DPDK alone, there were a request came in for Mellanox card months ago, thus the dpdk-libibverbs recipe. > > Right now to use DPDK, I'm having to use BBMASK to disable pretty much > everything else in meta-intel for the systems I am trying to support. > > What I would like to propose is moving dpdk into a sublayer of meta-intel (or > an external layer.) I'm not sure about the sublayer design, perhaps Saul would have better input on this? I think this boils down to what is the role of meta-intel, is it a common layer for IA-based platforms? Or it's a layer to host software/firmware from Intel? > I spoke to Saul about this briefly to see if it sounded like a reasonable > idea, > and at least on the surface it seems reasonable. > > Is this something you would be interested in doing? If so, I can prepare > patches to construct the new sublayer and move the associate package(s) > into that layer. Would this be in time for the Rocko release / meta-intel 8.0 ? > > --Mark -- _______________________________________________ meta-intel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-intel
