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The PCI and virtual bus are planned to be moved to the generic drivers/bus directory in v17.08. For this change to be possible, the EAL must be made completely independent. The rte_devargs structure currently holds device representation internal to those two busses. It must be made generic before this work can be completed. Instead of using either a driver name for a vdev or a PCI address for a PCI device, a devargs structure will have to be able to describe any possible device on all busses, without introducing dependencies on any bus-specific device representation. This will break the ABI for this structure. Additionally, an evolution will occur regarding the device parsing from the command-line. A user must be able to set which bus will handle which device, and this setting is integral to the definition of a device. The format has not yet been formally defined, but a proposition will follow soon for a new command line parameter format for all devices. Signed-off-by: Gaetan Rivet <gaetan.rivet@6wind.com> Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com> Acked-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com> Acked-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com> Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
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