[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/3] config: rename "default" machine type as "core2"

[David Marchand]

Bruce,


On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Richardson, Bruce <
bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:

>
> This patch I'm not so sure about. For 64-bit, the term "default" is pretty
> much correct, as it should work for any 64-bit IA cpu AFAIK, since all
> 64-bit cpus should have the necessary SSE instructions to run DPDK. For
> 32-bit it's perhaps not so clear cut, but I think the baseline being
> "default" rather than a specific uarch is good to keep.
>


Ok.
I was not too fond of "core2" either.
If "default" must be understood as "works fine on all platform", it is
quite sound this way.

Let's just drop this patch.

Thanks.

-- 
David Marchand