From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: arch check in example dpdk_qat Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 12:04:09 +0100 Message-ID: <3286701.A42TaaeMmo@xps13> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: dev@dpdk.org To: bruce.richardson@intel.com, pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com Return-path: Received: from mail-wm0-f43.google.com (mail-wm0-f43.google.com [74.125.82.43]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9988C2BA5 for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2016 12:05:51 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail-wm0-f43.google.com with SMTP id p65so18825065wmp.0 for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2016 04:05:51 -0700 (PDT) List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" When reading examples/dpdk_qat/Makefile, we can see this check: ifneq ($(CONFIG_RTE_ARCH),"x86_64") ifneq ($(LBITS),i686) $(error The RTE_TARGET chosen is not compatible with this environment \ (x86_64), for this application. Please change the definition of the \ RTE_TARGET environment variable, or run the application on a 32-bit OS) endif endif Is it on purpose to limit the 32-bit support to i686 only? Instead of the message "run the application on a 32-bit OS", should it be "on an i686 OS"?