Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/7] common/octeontx: enable build only on 64bit Linux

["Kinsella, Ray" <mdr@ashroe.eu>]

On 25/03/2021 10:46, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 25/03/2021 11:42, Thomas Monjalon:
>> 24/03/2021 11:55, Jerin Jacob:
>>> On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 10:33 PM <pbhagavatula@marvell.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> From: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavatula@marvell.com>
>>>>
>>>> Due to Linux kernel dependency, only enable build for 64bit Linux.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavatula@marvell.com>
>>>
>>> Series Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>
>>
>> I've reorganized the commits per family of drivers,
>> so it makes more sense than grouping per driver class
>> with "common/octeontx" for title for all:
>>
>> net/thunderx: enable build only on 64-bit Linux
>> common/octeontx: enable build only on 64-bit Linux
>> common/octeontx2: enable build only on 64-bit Linux
>>
>> and applied.
> 
> Actually not applied yet.
> I'm not sure what to do for the ABI check which is broken
> because some drivers are not compiled anymore in 32-bit build.
> I've workarounded locally by removing the dump files in the reference build.
> Should we add an exception in libabigail.abignore?
> 
In the past we said that depreciating HW support would be considered to be same as an ABI Breakage.

From the policy ... 
"Updates to the minimum hardware requirements, which drop support for hardware which was previously supported, should be treated as an ABI change."