Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7] build: use platform for generic and native builds

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

07/07/2021 15:59, Bruce Richardson:
> On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 11:44:28AM +0200, Juraj Linkeš wrote:
> > The current meson option 'machine' should only specify the ISA, which is
> > not sufficient for Arm, where setting ISA implies other settings as well
> > (and is used in Arm configuration as such).
> > Use the existing 'platform' meson option to differentiate the type of
> > the build (native/generic) and set ISA accordingly, unless the user
> > chooses to override it with a new option, 'cpu_instruction_set'.
> > The 'machine' option set the ISA in x86 builds and set native/default
> > 'build type' in aarch64 builds. These two new variables, 'platform' and
> > 'cpu_instruction_set', now properly set both ISA and build type for all
> > architectures in a uniform manner.
> > The 'machine' option also doesn't describe very well what it sets. The
> > new option, 'cpu_instruction_set', is much more descriptive. Keep
> > 'machine' for backwards compatibility.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Juraj Linkeš <juraj.linkes@pantheon.tech>
> 
> Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>

Applied, thanks.

I did few doc formatting improvements and removed some mentions to Arm
as a SoC is not necessarily Arm (Risc-V is coming).