Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] bbdev: remove experimental tag from API

[Hemant Agrawal]

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> On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 6:27 PM Nicolas Chautru
> <nicolas.chau...@intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > This was previously suggested last year
> >
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> > but there was request from community to wait another year to confirm
> formally this api is mature.
> 
> The request was to wait for a new vendor (i.e. non Intel) to implement a
> bbdev driver for their hw.
> 
> NXP proposed a driver for this class:
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> What is the status of this driver?

[Hemant]  We are in process of resending the patches in next few days. 

> I see no update on the bbdev API, which seems good, but a confirmation is
> needed.
> 
> 
> --
> David Marchand