[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] build: establish an invariant machine type

[Bruce Richardson]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 02:18:38PM +0100, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> Add the machine definition 'default' which is special compared
> to 'native' (most optimized for current system) or any explicit
> type (external entity has to decide on the type).
> 
> It defaults to the per arch agreed common minimal baseline
> needed for DPDK to reasonable work.
> 
> That might not be the most optimized, but the most portable
> version while still being able to support the CPU features
> required for DPDK.
> 
> Going forward this can be bumped up by the DPDK project, but it
> can never be an invariant like 'native'.
> 
> Distributions and other needing portable code are expected to
> define the machine as 'baseline'.
> 
Need to change 'baseline' to 'default' here.

> Changes in v2:
> - fixed the non 64 bit arm default type
> - changed baseline to default to match the old build system
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>

Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>