[PATCH v8 0/6] Introduce support for LoongArch architecture

[zhoumin]

Hi, David,

It is hard to find words to express my gratitude.


On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 19:49, David Marchand wrote:
> Hello Min,
>
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2022 at 5:41 PM Min Zhou <zhoumin at loongson.cn> wrote:
>> Dear team,
>>
>> The following patch set is intended to support DPDK running on LoongArch
>> architecture.
>>
>> LoongArch is the general processor architecture of Loongson Corporation
>> and is a new RISC ISA, which is a bit like MIPS or RISC-V.
>>
>> The online documents of LoongArch architecture are here:
>>      https://loongson.github.io/LoongArch-Documentation/README-EN.html
>>
>> The latest build tools for LoongArch (binary) can be downloaded from:
>>      https://github.com/loongson/build-tools
>>
>> If you want to generate your own cross toolchain, you can refer to
>> this thread:
>>      https://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/53b50799-cb29-7ee6-be89-4fe21566e127@loongson.cn/T/#m1da99578f85894a4ddcd8e39d8239869e6a501d1
>>  From the link above, you can find a script to do that.
>>
>> v8:
>>      - rebase the patchset on the main repository
>>      - add meson build test for LoongArch in devtools/test-meson-builds.sh
>>      - add ccache to build configuration file
>>      - change the cpp meson variable to a c++ compiler
>>      - complete the cross compilation documentation for LoongArch, adding
>>        reference to the build script and dependency list
>>      - put the feature description for LoongArch in the EAL features list
>>        in release_22_11.rst
>>      - simplify macro definition for new added headers
>>      - put the items about LoongArch in the right place in meson.build
> Thanks for this last revision.
>
> We discussed a few things offlist, let me sumarize here for others:
> - I fixed a few style issues, re-arranged the documentation around the
> cross toolchain generation from sources,


Thanks a lot for your review and help.


> - on your side, LoongSon is building a CI system so that we have non
> regression compilation tests reports in DPDK patchwork, hopefully, by
> -rc3 time.


Yes, thanks. We will keep the deadline and try our best to provide a 
stable CI system for LoongArch.

>    As for adding more tests run by this CI, this can be discussed later,
>

Yes, thanks. There are also some important issues to discuss.


> The last build fixes for GCC 12 have been merged by Thomas.
> There is nothing blocking for merging this series.
>
> Welcome to LoongArch in DPDK!
>
> Series applied.


Thanks a lot. It is the beginning for LoongArch platform to benefit from 
DPDK community. I expect DPDK

will become more and more prosperous on LoongArch.


Thanks,

Min Zhou

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