[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 00/26] linux/eal: Remove most causes of panic on init

[Aaron Conole]

"Richardson, Bruce" <bruce.richardson at intel.com> writes:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, March 9, 2017 9:26 AM
>> To: Richardson, Bruce <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
>> Cc: Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com>; dev at dpdk.org; Stephen Hemminger
>> <stephen at networkplumber.org>
>> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 00/26] linux/eal: Remove most causes of
>> panic on init
>> 
>> 2017-03-09 09:11, Bruce Richardson:
>> > On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 10:58:27PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
>> > > Hi,
>> > >
>> > > Thanks for the work.
>> > > I think it needs to be completed to have the same behaviour on bsdapp.
>> >
>> > Ideally, yes, but I also don't think the lack of BSD changes should
>> > block the inclusion of this set. In terms of application writers, the
>> > apps don't need to be written differently for BSD compared to Linux
>> > because of this change. All that is different is that the BSD version
>> > will panic rather than return the error code.
>> 
>> So you do not have any issue about having a different behaviour on Linux
>> and BSD?
>> You are the bsdapp maintainer, so it is your call.
>
> I would infinitely prefer to have the same behavior. However, so long
> as this does not require a user to change their app to be different on
> BSD, I don't think lack of BSD support should block improving Linux.
>
> Aaron - will you be able to do equivalent changes to BSD within the 17.05 timeframe?

I'm going to spend some time next week looking into it.  If it looks
like it's akin to s/linuxapp/bsdapp/ and everything works, then I'll do
it.  If I get hung up on anything, I'll probably update with my status.

-Aaron