14/10/2026 11:37, Radu Nicolau: > On 13-Oct-26 8:51 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > 24/09/2026 13:18, Akhil Goyal: > >>> From: Nicolau, Radu <[email protected]> > >>>> Increase the minimum required IPsec MB library version to 2.0 As a > >>>> consequence, clean up the aesni_mb PMD code. > >>>> > >>>> Signed-off-by: Radu Nicolau <[email protected]> > >>> Acked-by: Pablo de Lara <[email protected]> > >> Applied to dpdk-next-crypto > > As usual with Intel IPsec MB, it triggers a compilation failure on Arm: > > > > drivers/crypto/ipsec_mb/pmd_aesni_mb.c:24:32: > > error: 'IMB_CIPHER_SM4_GCM' undeclared > > > > I have to drop this commit while pulling next-crypto in main. > > > > Please find a solution. > > I'm still advocating to merge the Arm fork. > > Hi Thomas, the root cause of the build failure on Arm is their library > fork which lags behind, being at 1.5 release which is at this point > almost 3 years old. > > The only solution in this release cycle is to drop this patch and rebase > the ones adding support for 3.0. > > Considering Arm lack of support and contributions for these PMD over the > last couple of years, the only long term solution I see to avoid PMD > code littered with ifdefs and supporting very old releases of the > library is to drop the Arm version altogether.
No. The only solution is to work with Arm.

