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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v3] mem: Fix anonymous mapping
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Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:46:38 +0100
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Hi,

Long time no talk about the IBM Power support status.

16/11/2018 18:35, David Wilder:
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst
> +* IBM Power8 is not supported by this release of DPDK. IBM Power9 is supported.

The config file is defconfig_ppc_64-power8-linuxapp-gcc.
Given that only Power9 is supported, should we rename it?

Is there more changes required to make Power9 working with the latest DPDK?