[meta-intel] [PATCHv2 2/2] meta-romley: add Intel DPDK v1.6.0r2 support Romley machine config

[Chan, Wei Sern]

Hi Ross,
The reason I placed it as default build for Romley as it can support our customer better. 

There are 2 reason we decided to make default package for Romley:-
1. Some of Intel CID's customer which they are not experienced Yocto Project they can simply build the image from there by bitbake core-image-sato.
2. For next major release meta-intel, dpdk will be part of the core-image-sato for Romley bsp and customer can benefit from it directly without having thru to configure too much on their local.conf

Thanks.
Regards,
Wei Sern.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Burton, Ross [mailto:ross.burton at intel.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 3:48 AM
> To: Chan, Wei Sern
> Cc: meta-intel at yoctoproject.org
> Subject: Re: [meta-intel] [PATCHv2 2/2] meta-romley: add Intel DPDK v1.6.0r2
> support Romley machine config
> 
> On 10 July 2014 09:40,  <wei.sern.chan at intel.com> wrote:
> > Added MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS to include dpdk for romley
> machine
> > configuration so that building on Romley will automatically pick up
> > Intel DPDK.
> 
> As far as I'm aware DPDK on it's own doesn't serve any purpose - it's a
> development kit/library and you need to build *something* against it to get
> the increased network performance for that application.
> 
> If this is the case then it shouldn't be installed by default in every romley
> image.
> 
> Ross