[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 5/6] eal: remove xen dom0 support

[Tan, Jianfeng]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas at monjalon.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 3:31 PM
> To: Tan, Jianfeng
> Cc: Richardson, Bruce; dev at dpdk.org; xen-devel at lists.xenproject.org;
> Mcnamara, John; joao.m.martins at oracle.com;
> jerin.jacob at caviumnetworks.com; shahafs at mellanox.com
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 5/6] eal: remove xen dom0 support
> 
> 05/09/2017 05:41, Tan, Jianfeng:
> > From: Richardson, Bruce
> > >
> > > Reading the contributors guide section on ABI, specifically
> > > http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/contributing/versioning.html#deprecating-
> an-
> > > entire-abi-version
> > > it seems like we should collapse down the versions to a single one
> > > following the function removal, and also increment the whole library so
> > > version.
> >
> > So for lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/rte_eal_version.map, we should change
> it in below way?
> >
> > DPDK_2.1 {
> >         {APIs in DPDK_2.0 except xen APIs}
> >         ...
> > };
> >
> > DPDK_16.04 {
> >         {APIs in DPDK_2.1 except xen APIs}
> >         ...
> > } DPDK_2.1;
> 
> No, you don't need to collapse. You can just remove Xen functions.

Thanks.

Besides, two more things: 
1. Shall we increase the so version?
2. This patch is about 8K lines long, do we need to split?