[19.11][20.11][21.11] ppc64 fixes backport
Thomas Monjalon
thomas at monjalon.net
Thu Jul 7 08:51:13 CEST 2022
06/07/2022 20:53, Luca Boccassi:
> On Wed, 29 Jun 2022 at 14:40, Xueming(Steven) Li <xuemingl at nvidia.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi LTS maintainers,
> >
> > Confirmed with Thomas, mlx5 PMD needs the following patches to compile with the upstream rdma-core lib.
> >
> > 2022-05-25 2022-06-01 b251bb7630 eal/ppc: undefine AltiVec keyword vector @Thomas Monjalon
> > 2022-05-03 2022-05-25 64fcadeac0 avoid AltiVec keyword vector @Thomas Monjalon
> >
> > I tried to backport to 20.11.6 LTS, cherry-pick works without conflicts.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Xueming Li
>
> Hi,
>
> This patch:
>
> 2022-05-25 2022-06-01 b251bb7630 eal/ppc: undefine AltiVec keyword
> vector @Thomas Monjalon
>
> Looks like an incompatible change? Commit message says so too:
>
> "This is a compatibility breakage for applications which were using
> the keyword "vector" for its AltiVec meaning."
>
> The first one looks like but I don't think we should pick up the
> second one for the LTS branches?
Yes if we undefine "vector", we break applications using this syntax.
That's a required change for recent rdma-core which uses the name "vector"
for another purpose.
I don't know what is best/worst.
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