[meta-intel] [PATCHv2 2/2] meta-romley: add Intel DPDK v1.6.0r2 support Romley machine config

Burton, Ross ross.burton at intel.com
Thu Jul 10 12:47:43 PDT 2014


On 10 July 2014 09:40,  <wei.sern.chan at intel.com> wrote:
> Added MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS to include dpdk for romley machine
> configuration so that building on Romley will automatically pick up
> Intel DPDK.

As far as I'm aware DPDK on it's own doesn't serve any purpose - it's
a development kit/library and you need to build *something* against it
to get the increased network performance for that application.

If this is the case then it shouldn't be installed by default in every
romley image.

Ross


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