From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: 18.08 build error on ppc64el - bool as vector type
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 16:11:33 +0200
Message-ID: <CAATJJ0KNjoueqW3UwDjnRnA7HrJNF-F8f1F7szN9Lj1KeAL_Bw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAATJJ0Ld_3o7FzZaoRO_eK2qWDpBuYg6QtKDCVjEUh22V_7k=w@mail.gmail.com>
 <20180829131605.GJ3695@6wind.com>
 <CAATJJ0Jn9PTu8QpdMZ6t5j-ThKH_fn-Ucy24oLutG=fKfUdXcQ@mail.gmail.com>
 <3195236.p3PdHVbfnl@xps> <002401d440dc$df7cae20$9e760a60$@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Cc: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
 Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan <gowrishankar.m@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
 pradeep@us.ibm.com, mendoza1@us.ibm.com,
 gowrishankar.m@in.ibm.com, kjreilly@us.ibm.com, dev <dev@dpdk.org>,
 adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com, Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
To: Chao Zhu <chaozhu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Return-path: <dev-bounces@dpdk.org>
Received: from youngberry.canonical.com (youngberry.canonical.com
 [91.189.89.112]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15DBF1B43E
 for <dev@dpdk.org>; Thu, 27 Sep 2018 16:12:01 +0200 (CEST)
Received: from mail-ot1-f69.google.com ([209.85.210.69])
 by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16)
 (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>)
 id 1g5X1M-0005Vu-OH for dev@dpdk.org; Thu, 27 Sep 2018 14:12:00 +0000
Received: by mail-ot1-f69.google.com with SMTP id u40-v6so3229216otc.0
 for <dev@dpdk.org>; Thu, 27 Sep 2018 07:12:00 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <002401d440dc$df7cae20$9e760a60$@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions <dev.dpdk.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://mails.dpdk.org/options/dev>,
 <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/>
List-Post: <mailto:dev@dpdk.org>
List-Help: <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://mails.dpdk.org/listinfo/dev>,
 <mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=subscribe>
Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org
Sender: "dev" <dev-bounces@dpdk.org>

On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 5:44 AM Chao Zhu <chaozhu@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote=
:

> Thomas,
>
> Sorry for the late reply. DPDK will definitely be supported by IBM. I thi=
nk
> Pradeep and the team is working on this. Personally, I don't have enough
> bandwidth to do this, we'll have a discussion internally to decide who wi=
ll
> take over the maintenance.
>

We have seen you acking packages recently, but that alone .
But we have a new LTS 18.11 ahead and I'd hate to release it without PPC
maintenance.
Did the discussions resolve, if so did you get more time to do it or was
somebody else elected?


Thank you!
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas@monjalon.net]
> > Sent: 2018=E5=B9=B48=E6=9C=8830=E6=97=A5 16:37
> > To: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>; Gowrishankar
> > Muthukrishnan <gowrishankar.m@linux.vnet.ibm.com>; Chao Zhu
> > <chaozhu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>; pradeep@us.ibm.com; Alfredo Mendoza
> > <mendoza1@us.ibm.com>; Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan
> > <gowrishankar.m@in.ibm.com>; Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan
> > <gowrishankar.m@linux.vnet.ibm.com>; Kevin Reilly <kjreilly@us.ibm.com>
> > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com; Luca Boccassi
> > <bluca@debian.org>
> > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] 18.08 build error on ppc64el - bool as vector
> type
> >
> > 29/08/2018 16:37, Christian Ehrhardt:
> > > Why is no-one of IBM/Power world replying at all?
> > > There not even was a "oh yeah, <whatever the content would be>" mail
> > > by them.
> > > Is in fact ppc64 support in DPDK dead or at least "unmaintained"?
> > > This is something that mid term has to be sorted out - I tried to pul=
l
> > > some strings to get attention "there" but so far I'm waiting for a
> reply.
> > > I'd say 18.11 should not be released with a clear re-confirmation of
> > > ppc64 maintainance ppc64 by "someone".
> >
> > I tend to agree.
> >
> > Let's try again:
> >
> > Chao, are you still available for DPDK PPC maintenance?
> >
> > SHOULD WE DECLARE DPDK NOT SUPPORTED ON PPC64?
> >
>
>
>

--=20
Christian Ehrhardt
Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd