[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] build: add platform meson option

[Juraj Linkeš]

Bruce, what do you think of the patch now? Do we need to add/change anything else, like documentation?

One thing to note is that we're changing the default behavior in this patch from machine=native to machine=generic (or more accurately, to cpu_instruction_set=generic). Do we want to do that?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Juraj Linkeš <juraj.linkes at pantheon.tech>
> Sent: Monday, March 29, 2021 2:51 PM
> To: thomas at monjalon.net; david.marchand at redhat.com;
> bruce.richardson at intel.com; Honnappa.Nagarahalli at arm.com
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Juraj Linkeš <juraj.linkes at pantheon.tech>
> Subject: [PATCH v4] build: add platform meson option
> 
> The current meson option 'machine' should only specify the ISA, which is not
> sufficient for Arm, where setting ISA implies other setting as well.
> Add a new meson option, 'platform', which differentiates the type of the build
> (native/generic) and sets machine accordingly, unless the user chooses to
> override it.
> The 'machine' option also doesn't describe very well what it sets, so introduce a
> new option 'cpu_instruction_set', but keep 'machine' for backwards
> compatibility.
> These two new variables, taken together, achieve what 'machine' was setting
> per architecture - setting the ISA in x86 build and setting native/default 'build
> type' in aarch64 build - is now properly being set for all architectures in a
> uniform manner.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Juraj Linkeš <juraj.linkes at pantheon.tech>
> ---
>  config/arm/meson.build        |  6 ++---
>  config/meson.build            | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
>  devtools/test-meson-builds.sh |  9 ++++---
>  meson_options.txt             |  8 ++++--
>  4 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
>