Mellanox BlueField has a variant which doesn't have armv8 crypto extension. If crypto enabled binary runs on such a pltform, rte_eal_init() fails. To have binary compatibility across multiple variants, it is disabled by default and can be enabled for crypto enabled parts.
Signed-off-by: Yongseok Koh <ys...@mellanox.com> --- config/defconfig_arm64-bluefield-linuxapp-gcc | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/config/defconfig_arm64-bluefield-linuxapp-gcc b/config/defconfig_arm64-bluefield-linuxapp-gcc index b496538819..6da9c2026d 100644 --- a/config/defconfig_arm64-bluefield-linuxapp-gcc +++ b/config/defconfig_arm64-bluefield-linuxapp-gcc @@ -10,6 +10,12 @@ CONFIG_RTE_ARCH_ARM_TUNE="cortex-a72" CONFIG_RTE_MAX_NUMA_NODES=1 CONFIG_RTE_CACHE_LINE_SIZE=64 +# Crypto extension of armv8 +# +# Disabled by default for binary compatibility. +# Can be enabled for crypto-enabled parts. +CONFIG_RTE_ENABLE_ARMV8_CRYPTO=n + # UMA architecture CONFIG_RTE_EAL_NUMA_AWARE_HUGEPAGES=n CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_VHOST_NUMA=n -- 2.11.0
