[meta-intel] [fido][PATCH 00/16] DPDK v1.8.0 & v2.0.0 for CID platforms

[Darren Hart]

On 7/9/15 4:49 PM, Ong, Boon Leong wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Saul Wold [mailto:sgw at linux.intel.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, July 9, 2015 11:54 PM
>> To: Ong, Boon Leong
>> Cc: meta-intel at yoctoproject.org; chia.chuah.wu at intel.com
>> Subject: Re: [meta-intel][fido][PATCH 00/16] DPDK v1.8.0 & v2.0.0 for CID
>> platforms
>>
>> On 07/07/2015 04:20 PM, Ong Boon Leong wrote:
>>> Dear maintainers,
>>>
>>> Firstly, the patch add a layer for meta-isg just like dizzy branch.
>>>
>>> Then, the patchseries add the capabillity of DPDKv1.8.0 and DPDKv2.0.0
>>> on meta-intel fido branch. It reuses DPDK ingredients from dizzy
>>> branch as base and further customizes dpdk.inc to handle several build change
>> across DPDK v1.8.0 & v2.0.0.
>>>
>>> Wu, Chia Chuan has contributed the enhancement for DPDK v2.0.0 and I
>>> have checked and signed-off his contributions. I have validated both
>>> versions are building fine and the ingredients under packages-split look healthy
>> to my best knowledge.
>>>
>>> Chia Chuan has helped in testing the ingredients on CID platforms.
>>>
>>> Although it is a long series, but a lot of the commits are
>>> incrementally small for review. Hope that is fine with you.
>>>
>>> Appreciate your help and effort in reviewing this patchseries.
>>>
>>> If you find them good, please kindly help to merge them into fido branch.
>>>
>> Something I realized would make things much better, can these patches and along
>> with the QAT and zlib patches actually go into master and then be backported into
>> fido?
>>
>> This will then keep master current and allow easier update/upgrade pathes for
>> dpdk, qat and associated work.  This is the get stuff in master upstream first and
>> then backport?
>>
>> Would this be possible?
> 
> Saul, ok. 
> We will make sure that the patches are sent to be master then considered to be back-ported
> Into Fido. We were doing catch-up and with this that will safe effort in keeping "upgrading".

I've reviewed all patches on the list, this is the last one to be
processed from my perspective. Based on the above, I'm ignoring this
series and awaiting a new series applied to master with a request to
apply to fido. If it's a minor backport, we can do that automatically,
if there are conflicts, please follow Saul's advice on use cherry-pick
-x, noting the changes after the upstream commit id and adding your
signed-off-by.

-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center