On 25/03/2021 10:46, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 25/03/2021 11:42, Thomas Monjalon:
>> 24/03/2021 11:55, Jerin Jacob:
>>> On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 10:33 PM <pbhagavat...@marvell.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> From: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavat...@marvell.com>
>>>>
>>>> Due to Linux kernel dependency, only enable build for 64bit Linux.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavat...@marvell.com>
>>>
>>> Series Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jer...@marvell.com>
>>
>> I've reorganized the commits per family of drivers,
>> so it makes more sense than grouping per driver class
>> with "common/octeontx" for title for all:
>>
>> net/thunderx: enable build only on 64-bit Linux
>> common/octeontx: enable build only on 64-bit Linux
>> common/octeontx2: enable build only on 64-bit Linux
>>
>> and applied.
>
> Actually not applied yet.
> I'm not sure what to do for the ABI check which is broken
> because some drivers are not compiled anymore in 32-bit build.
> I've workarounded locally by removing the dump files in the reference build.
> Should we add an exception in libabigail.abignore?
>
In the past we said that depreciating HW support would be considered to be same
as an ABI Breakage.
>From the policy ...
"Updates to the minimum hardware requirements, which drop support for hardware
which was previously supported, should be treated as an ABI change."
