[PATCH 1/2] config/arm: Do not require processor information

[Akihiko Odaki]

On 2023/04/17 16:41, Ruifeng Wang wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki at daynix.com>
>> Sent: Friday, April 14, 2023 8:42 PM
>> To: Ruifeng Wang <Ruifeng.Wang at arm.com>; Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
>> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki at daynix.com>
>> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] config/arm: Do not require processor information
>>
>> DPDK can be built even without exact processor information for x86 and ppc so allow to
>> build for Arm even if we don't know the targeted processor is unknown.
> 
> Hi Akihiko,
> 
> The design idea was to require an explicit generic build.
> Default/native build doesn't fall back to generic build when SoC info is not on the list.
> So the user has less chance to generate a suboptimal binary by accident.

Hi,

It is true that the suboptimal binary can result, but the rationale here 
is that we tolerate that for x86 and ppc so it should not really matter 
for Arm too. On x86 and ppc you don't need to modify meson.build just to 
run dts on a development machine.

Regards,
Akihiko Odaki