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

[Pradeep Satyanarayana]

> > 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.

Thomas, Unfortunately we previously had some churn in the teams that worked
on DPDK
on Power. That had a downstream impact. We (Power) should be in better
shape than we
were in the past. For the last several weeks, we have been regularly
running a sub-set of
DTS with unit tests, sample  applications and so on against the master
branch. We are also
periodically running these tests against several of the  stable branches as
well.

> 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.

We have not observed any compilation issues since we started the CI. The
last issue reported
was during 18.11-rc1 that Mellanox fixed. Hopefully, we should catch any
such regressions
quickly in the future, since we now have a CI that runs periodically.

On a different note, I will reach out to Vivian and the s390 team.

Thanks
Pradeep
pradeep at us.ibm.com