Re: [PATCH v7 0/7] Introduce support for LoongArch architecture

[David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>]

Hello,

On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 10:02 AM Min Zhou <zhoumin@loongson.cn> wrote:
>
> Dear team,
>
> The following patch set is intended to support DPDK running on LoongArch
> architecture.
>
> LoongArch is the general processor architecture of Loongson Corporation
> and is a new RISC ISA, which is a bit like MIPS or RISC-V.
>
> The online documents of LoongArch architecture are here:
>     https://loongson.github.io/LoongArch-Documentation/README-EN.html
>
> The latest build tools for LoongArch (binary) can be downloaded from:
>     https://github.com/loongson/build-tools

Could you confirm which sources have been used to generate it? and
instructions to compile it?

>
> v7:
>     - rebase the patchset on the main repository
>     - add errno.h to rte_power_intrinsics.c according with
>       commit 72b452c5f259

Thanks, I will look at this last revision.


There is still one aspect that is unclear to me.
How will the DPDK community make sure changes won't break this
architecture? (I mean, runtime checks, not only compilation)
IOW, what do you plan to hook to our CI to test patches submitted to
the mailing list?


-- 
David Marchand