[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/4] add travis ci support for ppc64le

[David Marchand]

On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 7:13 PM David Wilder <dwilder at us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> This patch series adds Travis gcc compilation jobs and unit testing
> for ppc64le.  Limitations for ppc64le are similar to arm64 (see commit
> 31bb45bcfd).
>
> 1. Only gcc builds are supported on ppc64le.
> 2. Hugepages are not available in the ppc64le Travis environment.
> 3. Memory requirements are larger for ppc64le due to a higher
>    RTE_MAX_LCORE value.
>
> V2: Insures iova-mode is VA when --no-huge is selected.
>     Removed setting of --iova-mode=VA in test-null.sh.
> V3: Refactor ppc64le changes on top of David Marchand's
>     Patch series: "Reorganise Travis jobs"
>     http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2020-February/158231.html
> V4: Adding unit testing.
>     Updated eal/linux: patch to force PA mode when --huge-page is used.
>     This should be a more straightforward solution than my V3 patch.
>
> A Travis build with theses patches can be found here:
> https://travis-ci.org/github/djlwilder/dpdk/builds/670214578
> David Wilder (4):
>   eal/linux: force iova-mode va with no-huge option
>   devtools: allow test-null.sh to run on ppc64le
>   ci: add travis ci support for native ppc64le
>   ci: enable unit test for ppc64le
>

Is this series still applicable?
The changes on EAL did not get a review.


-- 
David Marchand