[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/4] catch up TILE-Gx support in DPDK

Chris Metcalf cmetcalf at mellanox.com
Tue Feb 21 19:15:17 CET 2017


Lining please go ahead since you are the maintainer. Note I adjusted maintainers in my patch so probably best to wait for that series to be applied then just remove the maintainers entry along with all the tilegx mpipe stuff. 

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On Feb 21, 2017, at 10:54 AM, Liming Sun <lsun at mellanox.com> wrote:

>>> So do you mean that the TILE-Gx maintainers officially give up on their role?
>>> Then please update the MAINTAINERS file.
> 
> Yes. Please update the MAINTAINERS file as needed.
> Chris Metcalf is out this week. I could submit a separate patch for the MAINTAINERS file if it's required. Or we could wait a little bit until Chris comes back.
> 
> Thanks,
> Liming
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com] 
> Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2017 4:30 AM
> To: Chris Metcalf
> Cc: Vincent JARDIN; Bruce Richardson; Jerin Jacob; Olivier Matz; Liming Sun; Olga Shern; Yael Shenhav; dev at dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] catch up TILE-Gx support in DPDK
> 
> 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.
> 
> Thank you.
> Some of these changes (being able to compile on a free toolchain) should have been done since the beginning. Better later than never :) I think we won't allow any new component in DPDK which cannot be built freely, in the future (lessons learned).
> 
>> 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.
> 
> So do you mean that the TILE-Gx maintainers officially give up on their role?
> Then please update the MAINTAINERS file.
> 
>> 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.
> 
> I agree. We can apply these patches before removing the whole architecture.
> 
>> 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).
> 
> I think it is OK as is.
> 


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