[dpdk-dev] 17.02 Roadmap

[O'Driscoll, Tim]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 14, 2016 9:19 PM
> To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; O'Driscoll, Tim <tim.odriscoll at intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] 17.02 Roadmap
> 
> 2016-10-14 10:29, Stephen Hemminger:
> > It seems like a lot of these feature are focused too narrowly on
> exposing
> > features that exist on specific Intel hardware. The concept of a
> general
> > purpose Dataplane Development Kit is that applications can be written
> that
> > have a generic API (like any operating system) that will run on a wide
> > variety of hardware.  This concept seems to getting lost as the DPDK
> is
> > becoming more of a platform for exposing what ever cool hardware
> features
> > exist.
> >
> > I would propose that no new feature be allowed in the DPDK unless it
> > can be supported on all device types. Yes that means you have to build
> > and test software emulation layers for all other devices. The current
> > model is more of a hardware test bed.
> 
> Thanks for the reminder Stephen. It is good goal.
> I think the software emulation idea is finding its way.
> About forbidding new hardware feature without emulation support,
> it has to be discussed.

We have a roadmap discussion on Thursday morning at the Userspace event in
Dublin. The aim is to discuss any gaps in the roadmap and see what can be 
done to address them. I think this would be a great topic to discuss then.