Hi Thomas, All Mellanox agrees to remove TILE-Gx support from DPDK.org, but will continue to support customers using DPDK. Customer that needs support should contact Mellanox directly.
Best Regards, Olga > -----Original Message----- > From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monja...@6wind.com] > Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2017 11:30 AM > To: Chris Metcalf <cmetc...@mellanox.com> > Cc: Vincent JARDIN <vincent.jar...@6wind.com>; Bruce Richardson > <bruce.richard...@intel.com>; Jerin Jacob > <jerin.ja...@caviumnetworks.com>; Olivier Matz > <olivier.m...@6wind.com>; Liming Sun <l...@mellanox.com>; Olga Shern > <ol...@mellanox.com>; Yael Shenhav <ya...@mellanox.com>; > dev@dpdk.org > Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] catch up TILE-Gx support in DPDK > > 2017-02-17 20:52, Chris Metcalf: > > This patch series allows DPDK to build for TILE-Gx as of version 17.02. > > > > A required library (libgxio) had not been made publicly available. > > It is now available as source here: > > > > > > http://www.mellanox.com/repository/solutions/tile-scm/libgxio-1.0.tar. > > xz > > > > it has also been folded into the binary release of the generic > > toolchain that we periodically update on that website; for more > > information about the toolchain tarballs, see here: > > > > http://www.mellanox.com/repository/solutions/tile-scm/ > > > > Note that the toolchain components were updated slightly in this > > release of the tarballs relative to what was there before. > > Thank you. > Some of these changes (being able to compile on a free toolchain) should > have been done since the beginning. Better later than never :) I think we > won't allow any new component in DPDK which cannot be built freely, in the > future (lessons learned). > > > Hopefully, with DPDK now working on TILE-Gx again, there may be > > interest from someone in the community in taking on a maintenance > > role. At this point, the Mellanox engineering team responsible for > > TILE-Gx is largely focused on working on future chips based on ARMv8, > > so unfortunately we won't have much bandwidth for TILE-Gx support going > forward. > > So do you mean that the TILE-Gx maintainers officially give up on their role? > Then please update the MAINTAINERS file. > > > If it still seems like removal makes sense now or at some point in the > > future, it would probably at least be good to apply these patches so > > there is a baseline to pick it up from later. > > I agree. We can apply these patches before removing the whole > architecture. > > > Liming Sun, the tile dpdk maintainer, has reviewed these changes (he > > sits next to me); if it's more appropriate, he can resend these > > changes with his Signed-off-by as well. I took on this work since I > > was more familiar with libgxio and the details of our toolchain (I am > > the maintainer for the tile architecture for Linux and glibc). > > I think it is OK as is.
