On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Jan Viktorin <viktorin at rehivetech.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 11:09:21 +0100 > David Marchand <david.marchand at 6wind.com> wrote: > > > +# PCI is usually not used on ARM > > > +CONFIG_RTE_EAL_IGB_UIO=n > > > > > > > Not sure "usually not used" is a good reason to disable something. > > Is there a real issue on arm with igb_uio code (compilation, pci > accesses) ? > > > > Well, it requires to set some options in Linux Kernel (at least PCI > support) which are usually disabled by the in-kernel *arm*_defconfigs. > Moreover, it seems I cannot enable it for some ARM architectures (I've > tried Altera SoC FPGA). That's because you hardly find an ARMv7 system > with a PCI bus. I suppose that if somebody _really_ needs this, she would > enable it by hand. > > At the moment, it breaks my common builds... The driver is mostly > useless on ARMv7 and just takes space in the filesystem. > > Ok, well, at the moment, you seem to be the only user :-) Let's see what other people say. -- David Marchand