Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC 00/12] introduce s390x architecture

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

10/04/2019 23:45, Pradeep Satyanarayana:
> 
> > > The IBM Power team is not idle in this area.  There's ongoing work to
> > > enable DTS on Power systems.
> >
> > Good to read there is some work in the pipe.
> > I can remember the first emails (in 2015) talking about some automated
> > tests for compilation and unit tests on IBM Power.
> 
> Thomas, Unfortunately we previously had some churn in the teams that worked
> on DPDK
> on Power. That had a downstream impact. We (Power) should be in better
> shape than we
> were in the past. For the last several weeks, we have been regularly
> running a sub-set of
> DTS with unit tests, sample  applications and so on against the master
> branch. We are also
> periodically running these tests against several of the  stable branches as
> well.

Good.
Next step will be to report some test result for each patchset submitted
on the mailing-list, so we can monitor the results from patchwork.

> > We are still seeing some compilation issues regularly on Power.
> > Before going to DTS, I think you should extend your compilation testing,
> > and basic feature testing with builtin unit tests.
> 
> We have not observed any compilation issues since we started the CI. The
> last issue reported
> was during 18.11-rc1 that Mellanox fixed. Hopefully, we should catch any
> such regressions
> quickly in the future, since we now have a CI that runs periodically.

There are some failure when compiling with big endian toolchain.
It seems you are not testing big endian.
If you don't support big endian, please mention it in the doc.

> On a different note, I will reach out to Vivian and the s390 team.

Thank you