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

[Pradeep Satyanarayana]

Pradeep Satyanarayana/Beaverton/IBM wrote on 04/11/2019 08:57:05 AM:

> From: Pradeep Satyanarayana/Beaverton/IBM
> To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org, David Christensen <drc at linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Vivian
> Kong <vivkong at ca.ibm.com>, David Wilder <wilder at us.ibm.com>
> Date: 04/11/2019 08:57 AM
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC 00/12] introduce s390x architecture
>
>
> > > > 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.
> >
> > There are some failure when compiling with big endian toolchain.
> > It seems you are not testing big endian.
>
> Correct, we have been doing all our work on little endian only.
>
> > If you don't support big endian, please mention it in the doc.
>
> Thank you for alerting us about this. Good point that you bring up.
> I will need some time to consult and figure out how we approach this.
> Let me get back to you on this.

On the Linux on Power front going forward, there are currently no plans to
support BE,
just LE.

The doc you mention above, is that this one?

https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/platform/index.html

Thanks
Pradeep
pradeep at us.ibm.com