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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/17] Wind River Systems AVP PMD vs
	virtio? - ivshmem is back
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2017-03-20 22:30, Hobywan Kenoby:
> If AVP was an upstream device of Qemu or Linux kernel that would be very natural to have a DPDK PMD (setting aside my comments on a preferred single virtual device).
> 
> As far as I know this is not the case.
> 
> Because of that, one could see the AVP PMD as a way to leverage open source to promote proprietary technology. That is the heart of the problem with the proposal.
> 
> So I would recommend waiting for an upstream qemu support to consider AVP in DPDK .
> 
> FF
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> From: dev <dev-bounces@dpdk.org> on behalf of Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 17, 2017 2:52:06 PM
> To: Thomas Monjalon
> Cc: Wiles, Keith; Jason Wang; Vincent JARDIN; Stephen Hemminger; O'Driscoll, Tim; Legacy, Allain (Wind River); Yigit, Ferruh; dev@dpdk.org; Jolliffe, Ian (Wind River); Markus Armbruster; Stefan Hajnoczi
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 00/17] Wind River Systems AVP PMD vs virtio? - ivshmem is back
> 
> On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 09:48:38AM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > I think there is one interesting technological point in this thread.
> > We are discussing about IVSHMEM but its support by Qemu is confused.
> > This feature is not in the MAINTAINERS file of Qemu.
> > Please Qemu maintainers, what is the future of IVSHMEM?
> 
> You should try asking this question on the qemu mailing list. Looking at
> archives, Jan Kiszka was the last one who expressed some interest in
> this device.
> 
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> MST