[PATCH] regex/cn9k: remove rule compiler

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Sun Jun 25 22:57:13 CEST 2023


On Wed, 21 Jun 2023 21:03:00 +0530
Jerin Jacob <jerinjacobk at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 7:36 PM Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> wrote:
> >
> > Nobody knows how to build the feature.
> > When the dependency "rxp_compiler" is found,
> > the header file is not available:
> >
> > drivers/regex/cn9k/cn9k_regexdev_compiler.c:12:10: fatal error:
> >         rxp-compiler.h: No such file or directory
> >
> > It seems that it depends on a proprietay library.  
> 
> Yes. it depended on proprietary library owned by NVIDIA now. Not sure
> Marvell has rights to publish it "freely available".
> In order to avoid forking this library, better option to make this
> library as public. Also, it looks like the library itself won't have
> proper installation procedures that is the
> reason for conflict as documented here in
> https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1232.

Interesting. Then what about the GPU support which currently requires
proprietary NVIDIA CUDA library


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