Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/7] common/octeontx: enable build only on 64bit Linux

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

25/03/2021 13:46, Jerin Jacob:
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 4:33 PM Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> wrote:
> > 25/03/2021 11:58, Kinsella, Ray:
> > > On 25/03/2021 10:46, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > > > 25/03/2021 11:42, Thomas Monjalon:
> > > >> I've reorganized the commits per family of drivers,
> > > >> so it makes more sense than grouping per driver class
> > > >> with "common/octeontx" for title for all:
> > > >>
> > > >> net/thunderx: enable build only on 64-bit Linux
> > > >> common/octeontx: enable build only on 64-bit Linux
> > > >> common/octeontx2: enable build only on 64-bit Linux
> > > >>
> > > >> and applied.
> > > >
> > > > Actually not applied yet.
> > > > I'm not sure what to do for the ABI check which is broken
> > > > because some drivers are not compiled anymore in 32-bit build.
> > > > I've workarounded locally by removing the dump files in the reference build.
> > > > Should we add an exception in libabigail.abignore?
> > > >
> > > In the past we said that depreciating HW support would be considered to be same as an ABI Breakage.
> > >
> > > From the policy ...
> > > "Updates to the minimum hardware requirements, which drop support for hardware which was previously supported, should be treated as an ABI change."
> >
> > So the patches should wait 21.11.
> > Everybody agree?
> 
> Looks good to me to postpone.

The v2 is waiting in patchwork with the status "Deferred":
https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=15885&state=*