[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 01/17] mk: Introduce ARMv7 architecture

[David Marchand]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Jan Viktorin <viktorin at rehivetech.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 11:09:21 +0100
> David Marchand <david.marchand at 6wind.com> wrote:
>
> > +# PCI is usually not used on ARM
> > > +CONFIG_RTE_EAL_IGB_UIO=n
> > >
> >
> > Not sure "usually not used" is a good reason to disable something.
> > Is there a real issue on arm with igb_uio code (compilation, pci
> accesses) ?
> >
>
> Well, it requires to set some options in Linux Kernel (at least PCI
> support) which are usually disabled by the in-kernel *arm*_defconfigs.
> Moreover, it seems I cannot enable it for some ARM architectures (I've
> tried Altera SoC FPGA). That's because you hardly find an ARMv7 system
> with a PCI bus. I suppose that if somebody _really_ needs this, she would
> enable it by hand.
>
> At the moment, it breaks my common builds... The driver is mostly
> useless on ARMv7 and just takes space in the filesystem.
>
>
Ok, well, at the moment, you seem to be the only user :-)
Let's see what other people say.


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David Marchand