Yes, this we can do without asking you guys, and we already do so. But that is not what this ntnic PMD is about. We have built a NT NIC out of our existing accelerator products. This NIC is built using an FPGA and is targeted towards NFV acceleration in virtualized environments. Now, we have seen good acceleration results in our tests by using DPDK (with small additions to DPDK). What we want to do is to make this part of open source DPDK and in general run this project in an open source spirit. We want to make further RFCs to the DPDK community about extensions to the DPDK that can accelerate packet processing, and this ntnic PMD is the first step in our participation/contribution into the DPDK project. Furthermore, we do not think in proprietary code with this project, and no further libraries or other external closed source dependencies will be added in upcoming contributions from our side (at least we have no plan in doing so).
Finn From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:step...@networkplumber.org] Sent: 10. september 2016 20:31 To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Finn Christensen <fc at napatech.com>; Neil Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] ntnic: add PMD driver I think that if the driver is just a shim for proprietary code, then the vendor should just maintain it out of tree. 6wind and windriver already do this. Disclaimer: This email and any files transmitted with it may contain confidential information intended for the addressee(s) only. The information is not to be surrendered or copied to unauthorized persons. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail from your system.
