From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pg0-f42.google.com (mail-pg0-f42.google.com [74.125.83.42]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02A712BB8 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2017 01:26:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-pg0-f42.google.com with SMTP id v18so9971921pgb.1 for ; Wed, 07 Jun 2017 16:26:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=networkplumber-org.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=mLxN1y7ab0GfUmPnMJJ3wmAKhNdV6y17TU9EOiEMF64=; b=C375Y8KT1JFebYXmh2poQv46RN6rIiXi5EZz5beLl7wZjLy3KzxZK+lqARgJoj+ff+ tpmaRX4FrtzTvH2fkA4dHDAdcEy9Cit32bJyvvOXlydRLYJO9nx1TMVI92Rt56oRLH2u Yy10HROaPlNe8ZDe3BGR1X/iDX9240S2r5fRKwVVsZ72CGs9wXlJFjEPdpwRQYLBNfIN 7oncjb0M5P6fJlcRMqr2oRCJQHDJ416fNcUBWdab+zVAlWDQ+jZ+AVbWpXVwLSLER6V1 poAGkW9QfStvk1GfXOiVuLExkO4UKEB2HBG5Mvn3EjAMnHpoOoHwXv6tmJQXnYMqTq3A ivhw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=mLxN1y7ab0GfUmPnMJJ3wmAKhNdV6y17TU9EOiEMF64=; b=bWMkCWcJffvHyr24V83+wl9sHj8qRYD66GA6w8AfIs8ZSzTjEipydVX37TGAOv75ip whMbgBg3ZSwuQ9C+uzSMOpBn4YA2bqmN3NZcszFsnrixrKVuYumAKNoqrEu4kvMR6yqZ q0msiSab1no2iVLQe+dYCAy9JhcJULt+2Z6TocBCWql+gCpZfYST/KG3xQ9QEDY9I0ij ULjbeUk3crOnBkFQoYRJT8H2hUtoPgD+8XtlyFk4xyu+Am0GVMX5+2slmuSuhKH8ap91 AZ0oGYqeA6EgMZMdtqVwKhDyIXumh2T0qBbKrbau/FhFGsaULJC80NPivszlWMrZ0pXD 6sjw== X-Gm-Message-State: AODbwcCFAmsgHV76znZRl35Y33M1zB1vDs2j9tTBiB9KPQIJ3mZ4t/ME kA9AVIsjwRv375aV X-Received: by 10.98.198.72 with SMTP id m69mr34531990pfg.169.1496877984886; Wed, 07 Jun 2017 16:26:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xeon-e3 (76-14-207-240.or.wavecable.com. [76.14.207.240]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id h15sm6564019pfk.120.2017.06.07.16.26.24 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Wed, 07 Jun 2017 16:26:24 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 16:26:17 -0700 From: Stephen Hemminger To: Bruce Richardson Cc: dev@dpdk.org Message-ID: <20170607162617.00d009ff@xeon-e3> In-Reply-To: <20170607104743.275149-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com> References: <20170607104743.275149-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH] replace DPDK config and build system X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2017 23:26:26 -0000 On Wed, 7 Jun 2017 11:47:42 +0100 Bruce Richardson 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.