[dpdk-dev] [RFC 00/12] introduce s390x architecture

[David Christensen]

>> The IBM Power team is not idle in this area.  There's ongoing work to
>> enable DTS on Power systems.
> 
> Good to read there is some work in the pipe.
> I can remember the first emails (in 2015) talking about some automated
> tests for compilation and unit tests on IBM Power.
> We are still seeing some compilation issues regularly on Power.
> Before going to DTS, I think you should extend your compilation testing,
> and basic feature testing with builtin unit tests.

That's on my ToDo list.  I'm currently investigating some errors from 
app/test/test_barrier.c which fails on weakly ordered memory systems 
such as Power.  I have my eye on several other tests as well that 
definitely need to be validated.

Dave