[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/4] catch up TILE-Gx support in DPDK

[Olga Shern]

Hi Thomas,  All

Mellanox agrees to remove TILE-Gx support from DPDK.org, but will continue to support customers using DPDK. 
Customer that needs support should contact Mellanox directly.

Best Regards,
Olga


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com]
> Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2017 11:30 AM
> To: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf at mellanox.com>
> Cc: Vincent JARDIN <vincent.jardin at 6wind.com>; Bruce Richardson
> <bruce.richardson at intel.com>; Jerin Jacob
> <jerin.jacob at caviumnetworks.com>; Olivier Matz
> <olivier.matz at 6wind.com>; Liming Sun <lsun at mellanox.com>; Olga Shern
> <olgas at mellanox.com>; Yael Shenhav <yaeli at mellanox.com>;
> dev at dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] catch up TILE-Gx support in DPDK
> 
> 2017-02-17 20:52, Chris Metcalf:
> > This patch series allows DPDK to build for TILE-Gx as of version 17.02.
> >
> > A required library (libgxio) had not been made publicly available.
> > It is now available as source here:
> >
> >
> > http://www.mellanox.com/repository/solutions/tile-scm/libgxio-1.0.tar.
> > xz
> >
> > it has also been folded into the binary release of the generic
> > toolchain that we periodically update on that website; for more
> > information about the toolchain tarballs, see here:
> >
> >   http://www.mellanox.com/repository/solutions/tile-scm/
> >
> > Note that the toolchain components were updated slightly in this
> > release of the tarballs relative to what was there before.
> 
> Thank you.
> Some of these changes (being able to compile on a free toolchain) should
> have been done since the beginning. Better later than never :) I think we
> won't allow any new component in DPDK which cannot be built freely, in the
> future (lessons learned).
> 
> > Hopefully, with DPDK now working on TILE-Gx again, there may be
> > interest from someone in the community in taking on a maintenance
> > role.  At this point, the Mellanox engineering team responsible for
> > TILE-Gx is largely focused on working on future chips based on ARMv8,
> > so unfortunately we won't have much bandwidth for TILE-Gx support going
> forward.
> 
> So do you mean that the TILE-Gx maintainers officially give up on their role?
> Then please update the MAINTAINERS file.
> 
> > If it still seems like removal makes sense now or at some point in the
> > future, it would probably at least be good to apply these patches so
> > there is a baseline to pick it up from later.
> 
> I agree. We can apply these patches before removing the whole
> architecture.
> 
> > Liming Sun, the tile dpdk maintainer, has reviewed these changes (he
> > sits next to me); if it's more appropriate, he can resend these
> > changes with his Signed-off-by as well.  I took on this work since I
> > was more familiar with libgxio and the details of our toolchain (I am
> > the maintainer for the tile architecture for Linux and glibc).
> 
> I think it is OK as is.