[meta-intel] [PATCH 0/4 dizzy] meta-isg: Intel DPDK Implementation

[Ong, Boon Leong]

>Subject: [PATCH 0/4 dizzy] meta-isg: Intel DPDK Implementation
>
>The Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) is a set of data plane libraries and
>network interface controller drivers for fast packet processing.
>DPDK provides a programming framework that scales from Intel Atom processors
>to Intel Xeon processors and enables faster development of high speed data
>packet networking applications.
>
>With Intel processors, It is possible to transition from using discrete architectures
>per major workload (application, control, packet, and signal processing) to a single
>architecture that consolidates the workloads into a more scalable and simplified
>solution.
>As a result, developers may be able to eliminate special-purpose hardware such as
>network processors (NPUs), co-processors, application specific integrated circuits
>(ASICs), and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).
>
>This recipe is cherry-picked from branch dizzy and the commit ID:
>1c825a06095178c0c51f28d5867549feac8a47f4:meta-intel/common: Add include
>file for DPDK
>c249763d3cb92bd06742b7986f08cf844ddb1d51:meta-intel/common: Initial Intel
>DPDK recipe under recipes-extended
>a14718dfaee57827a0666b858cf192dc1cb00db5:meta-intel/common: Upgrade
>DPDK to v1.7.0.
>
>These commits are removed in latest dizzy (1.7) due to build failure.
>DPDK v1.7 & v1.6 are validated on Linux kernel v3.10 and not supported on Linux
>kernel v3.17.
>Therefore, this recipe is intended to be supported only on Linux kernel v3.10 for all
>CID related platforms like Crystal Forest and Highland Forest.
>
Saul & Darren,
The patch series is a continued work from last what were discussed to bring
dpdk into meta-isg/common so that it can be used for all IOTG supported platforms
like crystal forest and mohonpeak.

All of these patches are in the past accepted into meta-isg/common/recipes-extended
Another patchseries will be sent to remove dpdk from meta-romley/recipes-extended
which currently has "COMPATIBLE_MACHINE = "romley|romley-ivb". 

Venkat has showed that the dpdk recipe build fine and the sanity test on both
highland forest & crystal forest platforms are passing fine.

So, I recommend that these recipes to be considered for merge into meta-intel
dizzy branch as intended above. So, I will give my ack-ed in all of these patch series
accordingly. Do tell us if you think there should be revision needed.

Many thanks.