[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 01/20] mk: change to cortex-a72

Hemant Agrawal hemant.agrawal at nxp.com
Tue May 16 17:06:20 CEST 2017


On 5/15/2017 10:19 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> On 5/15/2017 1:37 PM, Hemant Agrawal wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal at nxp.com>
>> ---
>>  config/defconfig_arm64-dpaa2-linuxapp-gcc | 2 +-
>>  mk/machine/dpaa2/rte.vars.mk              | 2 +-
>>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/config/defconfig_arm64-dpaa2-linuxapp-gcc b/config/defconfig_arm64-dpaa2-linuxapp-gcc
>> index 314a0ec..2304ab6 100644
>> --- a/config/defconfig_arm64-dpaa2-linuxapp-gcc
>> +++ b/config/defconfig_arm64-dpaa2-linuxapp-gcc
>> @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
>>
>>  # NXP (Freescale) - Soc Architecture with WRIOP and QBMAN support
>>  CONFIG_RTE_MACHINE="dpaa2"
>> -CONFIG_RTE_ARCH_ARM_TUNE="cortex-a57+fp+simd"
>> +CONFIG_RTE_ARCH_ARM_TUNE="cortex-a72"
>
> Can you please describe reasoning and effect in commit log:
>
> What will happen when cortex-a72 used instead of cortex-a57+fp+simd? And
> what is the motivation for change?
>

We will update the commit log for this and other patches as you commented.

W.r.t this patch, the revision of  LS2 devices now have cortex-a72, we 
have stopped A57.  fp and simd is no more required to be stated 
explicitly and supported by default in standard a72 core.

Regards,
Hemant

> Thanks,
> ferruh
>




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