On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 01:17:26PM +0100, Vincent JARDIN wrote:

Le 17/02/2017 à 13:13, Bruce Richardson a écrit :

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If it builds without an SDK dependency I'd be happy enough to see this
merged into DPDK.

+1, the patch is clean enough to be compiled.

Boards or CPUs can rely on specific SDK, firmware, etc., it is up to the
vendors.

I absolutely disagree with this.  Its completely anathema to the reason open
source code is beneficial to the community that maintains it.  By allowing code
like this into the project, you've tacitly agree to do regular maintenence on
their code for them, without the reciprocating benefit of being able to use
their hardware free of additional license terms.  If you want to have a non-open
driver that works with an open source project, thats fine, but keep it out of
tree, and maintain it yourself.  What you've esentially asked for here is for
the dpdk community to be some free labor, when APIS and such change.  No thank
you.

I re-iterate my NAK.

regards,
  Vincent