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From: David Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: Making rte_eal_pci_probe() in rte_eal_init()
	optional?
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 18:51:22 +0100
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Hello Roger,

On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Roger B. Melton <rmelton@cisco.com> wrote:

> Agreed.  For our application, the debug case would be to _enable_ the PCI
> scan.
>
> Again, thanks David for pointing it out.  It did solve our problem.


The only problem with --no-pci is that I think that vfio won't work
properly if used.

Did you try to blacklist all your devices then attach them later ?
I would say what you need here is to "blacklist all" or "whitelist none" at
startup, so maybe a special keyword for -b/-w options.


-- 
David Marchand