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. > > 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. > > 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. > > 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). > > Chris Metcalf (4): > tile: avoid use of non-upstreamed <arch/cycle.h> > tile: remove requirement for <arch/mpipe_{xaui,gbe}_def.h headers > strict alignment: generalize warning handling > tile: fix remaining build issues
Applied, thanks Next step is to remove the code for tile and mpipe, as agreed.
