Re: [lng-odp] Reconsidering PowerPC architecture for ODP

2018-08-22 Thread Maxim Uvarov
DPAA is arm64, at least main core. Isn't it? I see that DPDK is supported on IBM Power8. So ODP-DPDK on Power is one use case. I'm not sure if there can be done any native ODP port or they just use PCI. So the question is how it will affect on ODP  Debian packaging? If Debian will build ODP

Re: [lng-odp] Reconsidering PowerPC architecture for ODP

2018-08-22 Thread Bill Fischofer
While ODP itself is platform-neutral and architecture independent, which platforms to test on is a question of resourcing. So this is really an SC-level question. We'll support whatever architectures the ODP membership wishes to emphasize, but the current test focus remains Arm and x86. If we have

[lng-odp] Reconsidering PowerPC architecture for ODP

2018-08-22 Thread Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
Hello, While working on ODP packages for Debian and Ubuntu, I've noticed that those distros have switched their focus from 'powerpc' port (old 32-bit big endian machines) to ppc64el (64-bit little endian machines: POWER8, POWER9). E.g. Debian has moved 'powerpc' from main archive to ports.d.o sinc