Hi Thomas,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 31, 2015 4:08 PM
> To: Zhang, Helin; Ananyev, Konstantin; Richardson, Bruce
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org
> Subject: config files maintenance
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Currently most of the build options are duplicated in 2 config files.
> They should be merged in a common file to avoid this kind of differences:
> 
> --- config/common_bsdapp
> +++ config/common_linuxapp
> -CONFIG_RTE_IXGBE_INC_VECTOR=n
> +CONFIG_RTE_IXGBE_INC_VECTOR=y
> -CONFIG_RTE_IXGBE_RX_OLFLAGS_DISABLE=n
> +CONFIG_RTE_IXGBE_RX_OLFLAGS_ENABLE=y
> -CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_I40E_RX_ALLOW_BULK_ALLOC=n
> +CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_I40E_RX_ALLOW_BULK_ALLOC=y
> 
> Can we enable ixgbe SSE on BSD?

I think yes, though I never tried myself to run vecPMD on freebsd.

> CONFIG_RTE_IXGBE_RX_OLFLAGS_DISABLE must be renamed to
> CONFIG_RTE_IXGBE_RX_OLFLAGS_ENABLE, or can we remove this option?

I think we can remove RTE_IXGBE_RX_OLFLAGS_ENABLE.

Konstantin

> Can we remove i40e bulk alloc option?
> Why IEEE1588 is disabled? Can we remove this option?
> 
> Please help to fix it for the release 2.1.
> 
> After fixing the config, we have to think about simplifying it in 2.2.
> It would be easier to have some kind of config overlays:
>       config_base
>       config_bsd
>       config_linux
>       config_osv
>       config_gcc
>       config_icc
>       config_clang
>       config_i686
>       config_x86_64
>       config_x86_x32
>       config_ppc_64
>       config_tile-tilegx
> Then the defconfig files would include the above files.
> Or better, we could allow some paramaters to make config:
>       make config ARCH= OS= CC=
> 
> Thoughts?

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