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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH] replace DPDK config and build system
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 16:26:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170607162617.00d009ff@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170607104743.275149-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com>

On Wed,  7 Jun 2017 11:47:42 +0100
Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com> wrote:

> The prototype is incomplete, but it does build a reasonable number of our
> libraries, some unit tests, the i40e PMD and the testpmd binary, and I have
> successfully passed traffic using testpmd from the build. Some things are
> not fully correct, e.g. static builds aren't working right now, as I haven't
> correctly done all the dependency tracking, I think, and the cpu flag
> detection has issues. It also has only been tried on x86_64 linux, on a
> couple of systems, so YMMV. However, I feel it's a reasonable enough start
> point to show what we might be able to achieve.

Remember that in many cases the build system and the target system are different.
One of the problems with previous DPDK builds where build system was on bare metal
but deployment target was on a more limited VM environment. I sweated through
lots of  pain on that.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-06-07 23:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-07 10:47 Bruce Richardson
2017-06-07 10:47 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH] build for DPDK with meson and ninja Bruce Richardson
     [not found]   ` <CGME20170607143643eucas1p10bce80dca22034efc6402d5944a6a0ed@eucas1p1.samsung.com>
2017-06-07 14:36     ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-dev,RFC] " Ilya Maximets
2017-06-07 14:51       ` Bruce Richardson
2017-06-07 18:12   ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH] " Jerin Jacob
2017-06-08  8:43     ` Bruce Richardson
2017-06-08  7:20   ` Shreyansh Jain
2017-06-08  8:48     ` Bruce Richardson
2017-06-07 13:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH] replace DPDK config and build system Van Haaren, Harry
     [not found]   ` <1496841784.25214.6.camel@gmail.com>
2017-06-07 13:27     ` Bruce Richardson
2017-06-07 23:26 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2017-06-08  8:59   ` Bruce Richardson
2017-06-08 16:26     ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-06-08 18:07       ` Christian Ehrhardt
2017-06-08 18:21         ` Wiles, Keith
2017-06-09  9:05         ` Bruce Richardson
2017-06-09 18:06           ` Wiles, Keith
2017-06-20 13:34             ` Morten Brørup
2017-06-20 13:41               ` Bruce Richardson
2017-06-20 14:25                 ` Morten Brørup
2017-06-20 14:43                   ` Bruce Richardson
2017-06-22 17:14 ` Neil Horman
2017-06-22 20:27   ` Bruce Richardson

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