Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] config: add Mellanox BlueField ARMv8 SoC

[Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran <jerinj@marvell.com>]

On Wed, 2019-01-09 at 01:32 -0800, Yongseok Koh wrote:
> BlueField is Mellanox's new SoC based on ARMv8. BlueField integrates
> Mellanox ConnectX-5 interconnect and Cortex-A72 cores into a single
> device.
> 
> http://www.mellanox.com/page/products_dyn?product_family=256&mtag=soc_overview
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yongseok Koh <yskoh@mellanox.com>
> ---
> 
> This patch should be applied after
> 	"config: gather options for dlopen mlx dependency" [1]
> 
> [1] http://patches.dpdk.org/patch/49502
> 
>  config/defconfig_arm64-bluefield-linuxapp-gcc | 24 

Please add meson support together in this patch.


> ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 config/defconfig_arm64-bluefield-linuxapp-gcc
> 
> diff --git a/config/defconfig_arm64-bluefield-linuxapp-gcc
> b/config/defconfig_arm64-bluefield-linuxapp-gcc
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..8494a33641
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/config/defconfig_arm64-bluefield-linuxapp-gcc
> @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
> +# Copyright 2019 Mellanox Technologies, Ltd
> +#
> +
> +#include "defconfig_arm64-armv8a-linuxapp-gcc"
> +
> +# Mellanox BlueField
> +CONFIG_RTE_ARCH_ARM_TUNE="cortex-a72"
> +
> +CONFIG_RTE_MAX_NUMA_NODES=1
> +CONFIG_RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE=64
> +
> +# UMA architecture
> +CONFIG_RTE_EAL_NUMA_AWARE_HUGEPAGES=n
> +CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_VHOST_NUMA=n
> +
> +CONFIG_RTE_EAL_IGB_UIO=n
> +CONFIG_RTE_EAL_VFIO=n
> +CONFIG_RTE_KNI_KMOD=n

Does this SoC has external PCIe support? If so, VFIO may be required.


> +
> +# PMD for ConnectX-5
> +CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_MLX5_PMD=y
> +CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_MLX5_DEBUG=n
> +CONFIG_RTE_IBVERBS_LINK_DLOPEN=n