There is no standard to check endianness.
So we need to try different checks.
Previous trials were done in testpmd (see commits
51f694dd40 and 64741f237c) without full success.
This one is not guaranteed to work everywhere so it could
evolve when exceptions are found.
If endianness is not detected, there is a fallback on x86
to little endian. It could be forced before doing detection
but it would add some arch-dependent code in the generic header.
The option CONFIG_RTE_ARCH_BIG_ENDIAN introduced for IBM Power only
(commit a982ec81d8) can be removed. A compile-time check is better.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Chao Zhu <chaozhu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Michael Qiu <michael.qiu@intel.com>
enic driver is giving trouble because of non-standard types :
CC enic_res.o
In file included from
lib/librte_pmd_enic/enic_res.c:36:0:
lib/librte_pmd_enic/enic_compat.h:92:1: error: unknown type name ‘u_int32_t’
static inline u_int32_t ioread32(volatile void *addr)
^
Disable it on Power for now.
Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
The mmap of hugepage files on IBM Power starts from high address to low
address. This is different from x86. This patch modified the memory
segment detection code to get the correct memory segment layout on Power
architecture. This patch also added a commond ARCH_PPC_64 definition for
64 bit systems.
Signed-off-by: Chao Zhu <chaozhu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com>
This patch adds architecture specific byte order operations for IBM Power
architecture. Power architecture support both big endian and little
endian. This patch also adds a RTE_ARCH_BIG_ENDIAN micro.
Signed-off-by: Chao Zhu <chaozhu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com>
To make DPDK run on IBM Power architecture, configuration files for
Power architecuture are added. Also, the compiling related .mk files are
added.
Signed-off-by: Chao Zhu <chaozhu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com>
