[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: check cpu flags at init

[Flavio Leitner]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 11:43:37AM -0400, Aaron Conole wrote:
> My only concern is whether this change would be considered ABI
> breaking.  I wouldn't think so, since it doesn't seem as though an
> application would want to call this explicitly (and is spelled out as
> such), but I can't be sure that it isn't already included in the
> standard application API, and therefore needs to go through the change
> process.

I didn't want to change the original behavior more than needed.

I think another patch would be necessary to change the whole EAL
initialization because there's a bunch of rte_panic() there which
aren't friendly with callers either.

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fbl