[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v7 0/9] enable lpm, acl and other missing libraries in ppc64le

[Yuanhan Liu]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 12:16:32PM +0530, gowrishankar muthukrishnan wrote:
> On Friday 09 September 2016 09:29 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> >>>v7 changes:
> >>>- removed enforcing cache alignment for table hash structs and
> >>>   instead check only for multiples of 64 bytes.
> >>>
> >>Acked-by: Cristian Dumitrescu <cristian.dumitrescu at intel.com>
> >Applied, thanks
> >
> >We now have some AltiVec code in DPDK!
> >
> >
> Thank you Thomas, could this also go into stable tree ? (Added
> stable at dpdk.org in CC).

This patchset is more like enabling DPDK on a new platform, so, it's
a new feature to me, which is not a good candidate for a stable release:
the basic rule of it is only bug fixing patches are allowed.

The reason I picked "examples/ip_pipeline: fix lcore mapping for ppc64"
to stable branch is it looks like a bug fixing patch to me, while others
are not. OTOH, it also looks like a PPC enabling patch to me; from this
point of view, I may need drop it.

IBM guys, does it make sense to pick that one only to stable branch?
Or, should I drop it?

Thanks.

	--yliu