Intel DPDK added to FreeBSD ports collection

[Rui Paulo]

On Oct 29, 2014, at 05:13, Eggert, Lars <lars at netapp.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On 2014-10-20, at 17:40, Jim Harris <jimharris at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Just wanted to send a heads-up that Intel's Data Plane Development Kit
>> (DPDK) for high speed packet processing was added to the FreeBSD ports
>> collection last week under net/dpdk.
> ...
>> For any questions, please check out dpdk.org and the developer mailing list
>> (dev at dpdk.org).
> 
> that list seems to be more about the development of the kit, rather that about using the kit?
> 
> I've started to play with DPDK under FreeBSD, and am getting the following warning:
> 
> EAL: WARNING: clock_gettime cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW and HPET is not available - clock timings may be less accurate.
> 
> This is with the HPET changes rpaulo@ recently committed, and /dev/hpet0 is present.

I still haven't fixed DPDK to use /dev/hpet0.  Can you add a symbolic link /dev/hpet0 -> /dev/hpet?

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Rui Paulo