Re: [Xen-devel] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] maintainers: claim responsability for xen

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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The Xen dom0 support in DPDK seems dead.

Reminder:
Last time we talked about, it was because of a severe bug which is not
fixed yet:
        http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-July/044207.html
        http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-July/044376.html
The request (9 months ago) was to give more time for feedbacks:
        http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-July/044847.html


23/02/2017 09:49, Thomas Monjalon:
> 2017-02-20 15:33, Joao Martins:
> > On 02/17/2017 04:07 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 10:51:44PM +0100, Vincent JARDIN wrote:
> > >> Le 16/02/2017 à 14:36, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk a écrit :
> > >>>> Is it time now to officially remove Dom0 support?
> > >>> So we do have an prototype implementation of netback but it is waiting
> > >>> for review of xen-devel to the spec.
> > >>>
> > >>> And I believe the implementation does utilize some of the dom0
> > >>> parts of code in DPDK.
> > >>
> > >> Please, do you have URLs/pointers about it? It would be interesting to 
> > >> share
> > >> it with DPDK community too.
> > > 
> > > Joao, would it be possible to include an tarball of the patches? I know
> > > they are no in the right state with the review of the staging
> > > grants API - they are incompatible, but it may help folks to get
> > > a feel for what DPDK APIs you used?
> > OK, see attached - I should note that its a WIP as Konrad noted, but once 
> > the
> > staging grants work is finished, the code would be improved to have it in 
> > better
> > shape (as well as in feature parity) for a proper RFC [and adhering to the
> > project coding style].
> 
> Excuse my ignorance on Xen.
> Is xen-netback for Dom0?
> Is the DPDK Dom0 support working and useful?


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