From: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
To: Liming Sun <lsun@mellanox.com>
Cc: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>,
Vincent JARDIN <vincent.jardin@6wind.com>,
Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>,
Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>,
Olga Shern <olgas@mellanox.com>,
Yael Shenhav <yaeli@mellanox.com>, "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/4] catch up TILE-Gx support in DPDK
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 18:15:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C168B628-E180-4219-A58A-4B3C8BE9D261@mellanox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <HE1PR0501MB2427A78E9F5C4B3DDD8C6E05A1510@HE1PR0501MB2427.eurprd05.prod.outlook.com>
Lining please go ahead since you are the maintainer. Note I adjusted maintainers in my patch so probably best to wait for that series to be applied then just remove the maintainers entry along with all the tilegx mpipe stuff.
Sent from the waterpark while waiting for a kid :)
On Feb 21, 2017, at 10:54 AM, Liming Sun <lsun@mellanox.com> wrote:
>>> So do you mean that the TILE-Gx maintainers officially give up on their role?
>>> Then please update the MAINTAINERS file.
>
> Yes. Please update the MAINTAINERS file as needed.
> Chris Metcalf is out this week. I could submit a separate patch for the MAINTAINERS file if it's required. Or we could wait a little bit until Chris comes back.
>
> Thanks,
> Liming
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon@6wind.com]
> Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2017 4:30 AM
> To: Chris Metcalf
> Cc: Vincent JARDIN; Bruce Richardson; Jerin Jacob; Olivier Matz; Liming Sun; Olga Shern; Yael Shenhav; dev@dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] catch up TILE-Gx support in DPDK
>
> 2017-02-17 20:52, Chris Metcalf:
>> This patch series allows DPDK to build for TILE-Gx as of version 17.02.
>>
>> A required library (libgxio) had not been made publicly available.
>> It is now available as source here:
>>
>>
>> http://www.mellanox.com/repository/solutions/tile-scm/libgxio-1.0.tar.
>> xz
>>
>> it has also been folded into the binary release of the generic
>> toolchain that we periodically update on that website; for more
>> information about the toolchain tarballs, see here:
>>
>> http://www.mellanox.com/repository/solutions/tile-scm/
>>
>> Note that the toolchain components were updated slightly in this
>> release of the tarballs relative to what was there before.
>
> Thank you.
> Some of these changes (being able to compile on a free toolchain) should have been done since the beginning. Better later than never :) I think we won't allow any new component in DPDK which cannot be built freely, in the future (lessons learned).
>
>> Hopefully, with DPDK now working on TILE-Gx again, there may be
>> interest from someone in the community in taking on a maintenance
>> role. At this point, the Mellanox engineering team responsible for
>> TILE-Gx is largely focused on working on future chips based on ARMv8,
>> so unfortunately we won't have much bandwidth for TILE-Gx support going forward.
>
> So do you mean that the TILE-Gx maintainers officially give up on their role?
> Then please update the MAINTAINERS file.
>
>> If it still seems like removal makes sense now or at some point in the
>> future, it would probably at least be good to apply these patches so
>> there is a baseline to pick it up from later.
>
> I agree. We can apply these patches before removing the whole architecture.
>
>> Liming Sun, the tile dpdk maintainer, has reviewed these changes (he
>> sits next to me); if it's more appropriate, he can resend these
>> changes with his Signed-off-by as well. I took on this work since I
>> was more familiar with libgxio and the details of our toolchain (I am
>> the maintainer for the tile architecture for Linux and glibc).
>
> I think it is OK as is.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-21 18:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-18 1:52 Chris Metcalf
2017-02-18 1:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/4] tile: avoid use of non-upstreamed <arch/cycle.h> Chris Metcalf
2017-02-18 1:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/4] tile: remove requirement for <arch/mpipe_{xaui, gbe}_def.h headers Chris Metcalf
2017-02-18 1:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/4] strict alignment: generalize warning handling Chris Metcalf
2017-02-18 1:52 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/4] tile: fix remaining build issues Chris Metcalf
2017-02-18 9:29 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/4] catch up TILE-Gx support in DPDK Thomas Monjalon
2017-02-20 20:24 ` Olga Shern
2017-02-21 9:14 ` Bruce Richardson
2017-02-21 15:54 ` Liming Sun
2017-02-21 18:15 ` Chris Metcalf [this message]
2017-02-27 15:36 ` Thomas Monjalon
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