Hi Smith, Could you please reply to Thomas' comments.
Regards, Akhil On 3/9/2019 6:54 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > Hi, > > 01/03/2019 18:23, Smith, Eleanor: >> Addition of a FPGA driver for acceleration of 4G turbo encoding and >> decoding. >> >> Signed-off-by: Smith, Eleanor <eleanor.sm...@intel.com> > I'm really not comfortable adding a new Intel bbdev driver, > while the turbo sw driver cannot be freely compiled. > I know some work is in progress in Intel to fix this compilation issue, > and I am interested in checking it before proceeding with a new driver. > >> +Section 3 of the DPDK manual provides instuctions on installing and >> compiling DPDK. The >> +default set of bbdev compile flags may be found in config/common_base, >> where for example >> +the flag to build the FPGA LTE FEC device, >> ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_FPGA_LTE_FEC``, is already >> +set. It is assumed DPDK has been compiled for an icc 64-bit target using: >> + >> +.. code-block:: console >> + >> + make install T=x86_64-native-linuxapp-icc > Is it possible to build this driver with gcc? > We cannot accept any maintenance operation if icc is required. > >
