[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] Add Armv7 support

[Ruifeng Wang]

Hi Supriya,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Supriya Shekhar Mane <sm.supriya at globaledgesoft.com>
> Sent: Friday, June 18, 2021 2:20 PM
> To: thomas at monjalon.net
> Cc: Chandrakant Sharpa <s.chandrakant at globaledgesoft.com>;
> dev at dpdk.org; Zaheer R M <zaheer.rm at globaledgesoft.com>; Gurusidhesh
> G H <gurusidhesh.gh at globaledgesoft.com>; david.marchand at redhat.com;
> bruce.richardson at intel.com; Jan Viktorin <viktorin at rehivetech.com>;
> Ruifeng Wang <Ruifeng.Wang at arm.com>; jerinj at marvell.com; Honnappa
> Nagarahalli <Honnappa.Nagarahalli at arm.com>
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] Add Armv7 support
> 
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> Here are the meson/ninja build results, we see no warnings here:
> 
> supriya at supriya:~/dpdk-meson-openwrt/dpdk-21.05$ meson armv7-build --
> cross-file config/arm/arm_armv7a_linux_gcc The Meson build system
<snip>
> supriya at supriya:~/dpdk-meson-openwrt/dpdk-21.05$ ninja -C armv7-build/
> ninja: Entering directory `armv7-build/'
> [1954/1954] Linking target app/test/dpdk-test

Documentation for Armv7 build is missing. 
It is better to add some guides together with this build support.

Do you have any plan on CI? 
I don't think DPDK Lab has Armv7 hardware to run tests.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Supriya Mane
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 1:21 PM Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > 10/06/2021 13:18, s.chandrakant at globaledgesoft.com:
> > > From: Chandrakant Sharpa <s.chandrakant at globaledgesoft.com>
> > >
> > > Adding support for Armv7 based platforms.
> > > Used latest GNU cross compiler toolchain
> > > version(10.2) for testing.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Chandrakant Sharpa <s.chandrakant at globaledgesoft.com>
> > > ---
> > >  config/arm/arm_armv7a_linux_gcc | 17 +++++++++++++++++
> > >  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
> >
> > Adding maintainers.
> >
> > Note: Armv7 is/was supported but was missing in the meson build system.
> >
> > How compilation is looking? I guess there are tons of warnings?
> >
> >
> >
> 
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