[dpdk-dev] [RFC PATCH] replace DPDK config and build system

[Bruce Richardson]

On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 12:07:05PM -0600, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 10:26 AM, Stephen Hemminger <
> stephen at networkplumber.org> wrote:
> 
> > On a side note, it would be good to use the GCC extensions that allow
> > building different versions of the same routine into one binary.
> >
> 
> And we are back to the discussion we had two years ago about how to deliver
> generic yet also optimized binaries in one shot.
> But if the new build system can enable us to do so I'm all in for that.
> 
> Thanks for bringing this up in that context Stephen - might be just the
> right time to look at it again.
> 
Yep, we can do that. First though, we need to decide what our minimum
supported compiler baseline is going to be.
Also, if the replace the build system, do we want to do a complete
on-shot replacement, or do we want to keep the older one around in
parallel for a while e.g. to support older OS's and compilers.

/Bruce