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

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

18/04/2019 23:06, Pradeep Satyanarayana:
> 
> Pradeep Satyanarayana/Beaverton/IBM wrote on 04/11/2019 08:57:05 AM:
> 
> > From: Pradeep Satyanarayana/Beaverton/IBM
> > To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> > Cc: dev@dpdk.org, David Christensen <drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Vivian
> > Kong <vivkong@ca.ibm.com>, David Wilder <wilder@us.ibm.com>
> > Date: 04/11/2019 08:57 AM
> > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC 00/12] introduce s390x architecture
> >
> >
> > > > > 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.
> >
> > Correct, we have been doing all our work on little endian only.
> >
> > > If you don't support big endian, please mention it in the doc.
> >
> > Thank you for alerting us about this. Good point that you bring up.
> > I will need some time to consult and figure out how we approach this.
> > Let me get back to you on this.
> 
> On the Linux on Power front going forward, there are currently no plans to
> support BE,
> just LE.
> 
> The doc you mention above, is that this one?
> 
> https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/platform/index.html

Yes, thank you.