From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] fix endianness in EAL Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 17:01:07 +0100 Message-ID: <11623035.k7Df5HHuXt@xps13> References: <283531301.lWbIahXLyM@xps13> <1417639668-23500-1-git-send-email-thomas.monjalon@6wind.com> <54802955.2090104@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: dev-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org To: Chao Zhu Return-path: In-Reply-To: <54802955.2090104-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org> List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org Sender: "dev" > > It can be hard to implement a reliable detection of endianness. > > Previous trials in testpmd failed. > > The IBM Power patchset introduced a config option. > > > > This patchset try to improve the situation by having a detection > > in EAL headers. > > > > Please test it (especially on IBM Power) with different toolchains > > or distributions. > > > > Thomas Monjalon (2): > > eal: detect endianness > > app/testpmd: fix endianness detection > > > I tested it on IBM Power with GCC 4.8. It works fine. > If there is no other better way to do the detection, I think this patch > is good enough. > > Acked-by: Chao Zhu Applied -- Thomas