2016-08-22 11:46, Pattan, Reshma: > From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com] > > 2016-08-15 16:02, Reshma Pattan: > > > The GCC 4.9 -march option supports the intel code names for > > > processors, for example -march=silvermont, -march=broadwell. > > > The RTE_MACHINE config flag can be used to pass code name to the > > > compiler as -march flag. Also old gcc versions compatibility code for > > > the intel platform is removed from > > > mk/toolchain/gcc/rte.toolchain-compat.mk > > > > Do you mean to not support GCC < 4.9 ? > > Yes.
It can be discussed but you must, at least, update the requirements: http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.html#compilation-of-the-dpdk