Drivers, architectures, processor families, etc.

[Philip Prindeville]

> On Aug 8, 2023, at 2:17 AM, Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 03:32:37PM -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote:
>> 
>> Noticed also that the ARM architecture has configs, but AMD64 seems to be wide open...  just one generic config.
>> 
>> Is that because some chips, like Xeon-D have on-die NICs, and others like Xeon-E don't?
>> 
> 
> Its just that folks generally don't cross-compile for x86, and also the
> fact that nobody has ever brought it up before. We have no "native-build"
> files in DPDK, only cross-files for cross-compilation. However, if there is
> demand for them no reason we can't store some.
> 
> /Bruce


We bought a Mac Studio (fully configured) for doing in-house CI/CD, and it was beating the pants off of any of our Xeon servers, so now we build everything either on an M2 Mac or on a Graviton EC2 instance.

Native builds are overrated. :-)

-Philip