From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mails.dpdk.org (mails.dpdk.org [217.70.189.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D7304300E; Tue, 8 Aug 2023 18:39:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mails.dpdk.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 126FD43247; Tue, 8 Aug 2023 18:39:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.redfish-solutions.com (mail.redfish-solutions.com [24.116.100.90]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ED6640A87 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2023 18:39:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtpclient.apple (macbook3-8.redfish-solutions.com [192.168.8.12] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.redfish-solutions.com (8.17.1/8.16.1) with ESMTPSA id 378Gd5Nf120630 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 8 Aug 2023 10:39:05 -0600 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 16.0 \(3731.700.6\)) Subject: Re: Drivers, architectures, processor families, etc. From: Philip Prindeville In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2023 10:38:51 -0600 Cc: Stephen Hemminger , dev@dpdk.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <45384262-9744-4975-B5FB-D5D26608DF5B@redfish-solutions.com> <20230802154759.0befb39c@hermes.local> <0C54E384-5177-4075-A935-3528F5FB31B2@redfish-solutions.com> To: Bruce Richardson X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3731.700.6) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 3.4.1 on 192.168.8.3 X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org > On Aug 8, 2023, at 2:17 AM, Bruce Richardson = wrote: >=20 > On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 03:32:37PM -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote: >>=20 >> Noticed also that the ARM architecture has configs, but AMD64 seems = to be wide open... just one generic config. >>=20 >> Is that because some chips, like Xeon-D have on-die NICs, and others = like Xeon-E don't? >>=20 >=20 > Its just that folks generally don't cross-compile for x86, and also = the > fact that nobody has ever brought it up before. We have no = "native-build" > files in DPDK, only cross-files for cross-compilation. However, if = there is > demand for them no reason we can't store some. >=20 > /Bruce We bought a Mac Studio (fully configured) for doing in-house CI/CD, and = it was beating the pants off of any of our Xeon servers, so now we build = everything either on an M2 Mac or on a Graviton EC2 instance. Native builds are overrated. :-) -Philip