[dpdk-stable] [EXT] [PATCH 1/6] meson: disable octeontx for buggy compilers on arm64

[Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula]

Hi Yongseok,

>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>Disable octeontx for gcc 4.8.5 as compiler is emitting "internal compiler error"
>for aarch64
>
>Fixes: bd77f2d64c44 ("event/octeontx: build with meson")
>Fixes: 4f760550a093 ("mk: disable OcteonTx for buggy compilers")
>Fixes: f3af3e44a444 ("mk: disable OcteonTx for buggy compilers only on
>arm64")
>Cc: pbhagavatula at marvell.com
>Cc: jerinj at marvell.com
>Cc: stable at dpdk.org
>
>Signed-off-by: Yongseok Koh <yskoh at mellanox.com>
>---
> drivers/event/meson.build | 6 +++++-
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
>diff --git a/drivers/event/meson.build b/drivers/event/meson.build index
>836ecbb74b..d364871d15 100644
>--- a/drivers/event/meson.build
>+++ b/drivers/event/meson.build
>@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
> # SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause  # Copyright(c) 2017 Intel Corporation
>
>-drivers = ['dpaa', 'dpaa2', 'octeontx', 'opdl', 'skeleton', 'sw', 'dsw']
>+drivers = ['dpaa', 'dpaa2', 'opdl', 'skeleton', 'sw', 'dsw'] if
>+(toolchain == 'gcc' and cc.version().version_compare('>=4.8.6') and
>+    dpdk_conf.has('RTE_ARCH_ARM64'))

Can we make this similar to MAKEFILE[1] case where octeontx is enabled for everycase except when 
We are compiling for ARCH_ARM64 is set and compiler is less than < 4.8.6?.
The reason being we want x86 CI to run (compilation part) to find any errors.

[1]
'
ifeq ($(CONFIG_RTE_ARCH), arm64)
        ifeq ($(shell test $(GCC_VERSION)$(GCC_PATCHLEVEL) -lt 486 && echo 1), 1)
                CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_OCTEONTX_SSOVF=d
                CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_OCTEONTX_MEMPOOL=d
                CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_OCTEONTX_PMD=d
        endif
        endif
'

>+	drivers += 'octeontx'
>+endif
> std_deps = ['eventdev', 'kvargs']
> config_flag_fmt = 'RTE_LIBRTE_ at 0@_EVENTDEV_PMD'
> driver_name_fmt = 'rte_pmd_ at 0@_event'
>--
>2.21.0.196.g041f5ea

Regards,
Pavan.