Seeking Advice on BPI-r3/4 Support for DPDK or NETMAP

Banana Pi Router design BPI-R4(MT7988)
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Hello everyone,

I am currently working on a project and I am interested in customizing my own protocol stack. Specifically, I am looking for information on whether the BPI-r3/4 board can support DPDK or NETMAP. I would appreciate any advice or guidance from the community regarding this topic. If anyone has experience or knowledge about using DPDK or NETMAP on the BPI-r3/4, please share your insights. Additionally, if there are any resources, tutorials, or documentation available that can help me get started with customizing my protocol stack on the BPI-r3/4, please point me in the right direction. Thank you in advance for your time and assistance. I look forward to hearing from you!

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I think mtk lack dpdk driver for the soc. We use vhost net and vpp to bypass openwrt network stacj, only use wifi part

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I’m grateful for your input!

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The Ethernet driver recently gained support for XDP – but not yet in OpenWrt, only bleeding edge vanilla Linux. Afaik XDP is supported by all recent MediaTek SoCs (MT7986, MT7981, MT7988) and hence on the BPi-R3 and BPi-R4.

A nice presentation explaining and comparing DPDK, eBPF and XDP

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Thank you for providing the information. I will look up relevant materials.