[dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH] RFC build: prototype support for ARM builds

Luca Boccassi bluca at debian.org
Tue Dec 19 14:27:07 CET 2017


On Tue, 2017-12-19 at 10:53 +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> Add some skeleton files to enable compiling for ARM target. This has
> been
> tested by doing a cross-compile for armv8-a type using the linaro gcc
> toolchain.
> 
> 	meson arm-build --cross-file aarch64_cross.txt
> 	ninja -C arm-build
> 
> where aarch64_cross.txt contained the following
> 
> 	[binaries]
> 	c = 'aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc'
> 	cpp = 'aarch64-linux-gnu-cpp'
> 	ar = 'aarch64-linux-gnu-ar'
> 
> 	[host_machine]
> 	system = 'linux'
> 	cpu_family = 'aarch64'
> 	cpu = 'armv8-a'
> 	endian = 'little'
> 
> It is hoped that those working on arm architecture can use this as a
> baseline
> to add arm support - both native compiled and cross-compiled - to the
> meson
> build.

Can't comment on ARM functionality, but shouldn't the new files use
SPDX ids rather than the full license header?

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi


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