On Mon, 2017-09-25 at 12:54 +0000, Tan, Raymond wrote: > 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 would suggest an external layer > I think this boils down to what is the role of meta-intel, is it a > common layer for IA-based platforms? meta-intel is meant to be a BSP layer, so more focused in IA-based platforms. > > Or it's a layer to host software/firmware from Intel? > As a BSP layer it should be more focused on platforms and not software from Intel. There are a number of other layers for Intel software. > > 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 ? > It could work for meta-intel 8.0 since we are independent of the Rocko release itself. If Mark can pull together the patches to create a separate layers for both DPDK and I guess QAT, that would be great. Sau! > > > > --Mark -- _______________________________________________ meta-intel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/meta-intel
