Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 1/4] baseband/fpga_lte_fec: addition of driver for 4G turbo FEC with PAC N300 FPGA card

[Akhil Goyal <akhil.goyal@nxp.com>]

Hi Smith,

Could you please reply to Thomas' comments.

Regards,
Akhil


On 3/9/2019 6:54 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 01/03/2019 18:23, Smith, Eleanor:
>> Addition of a FPGA driver for acceleration of 4G turbo encoding and
>> decoding.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Smith, Eleanor <eleanor.smith@intel.com>
> I'm really not comfortable adding a new Intel bbdev driver,
> while the turbo sw driver cannot be freely compiled.
> I know some work is in progress in Intel to fix this compilation issue,
> and I am interested in checking it before proceeding with a new driver.
>
>> +Section 3 of the DPDK manual provides instuctions on installing and compiling DPDK. The
>> +default set of bbdev compile flags may be found in config/common_base, where for example
>> +the flag to build the FPGA LTE FEC device, ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_FPGA_LTE_FEC``, is already
>> +set. It is assumed DPDK has been compiled for an icc 64-bit target using:
>> +
>> +.. code-block:: console
>> +
>> +  make install T=x86_64-native-linuxapp-icc
> Is it possible to build this driver with gcc?
> We cannot accept any maintenance operation if icc is required.
>
>