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 for Power it might be good to support it. From
other point of view to port odp linux-generic to different arch should
not be a big problem. And we can left this task to person which needs that.
Maxim.
On 22.08.2018 14:44, Bill Fischofer wrote:
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 easy access to POWER8/9 cross compilers it might be good to do a
quick test compile to see if there are any issues that arise, but unless
someone steps forward to champion these architectures I don't see us making
them part of our standard regression tests and packaging.
On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 6:11 AM Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <
dmitry.ereminsoleni...@linaro.org> wrote:
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
since July 1st, 2018.
Should we reconsider supporting plain powerpc and also switch to ppc64el
architecture? Or do we plan to support powerpc to let ODP applications
run on Freescale/NXP PowerQUICC/DPAA processors?
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With best wishes
Dmitry
