From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Wiles, Keith" Subject: Re: DPDK on IBM Power9 Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 00:23:56 +0000 Message-ID: References: <12786706.2di15EqK5T@xps> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Daniel Waddington , "dev@dpdk.org" To: Thomas Monjalon Return-path: Received: from mga07.intel.com (mga07.intel.com [134.134.136.100]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E44B1B5AF for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2019 01:23:59 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <12786706.2di15EqK5T@xps> Content-Language: en-US Content-ID: List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" > On Jan 9, 2019, at 6:07 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: >=20 > Hi, >=20 > 09/01/2019 23:25, Daniel Waddington: >> Hi, >> I'm trying to run DPDK 18.11 on IBM Power9. Should it run? (I'n new to= DPDK on Power). >=20 > As mentioned in the release notes, Power9 is supported: > http://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.html#known-issues >=20 > We are missing a strong support from IBM. > Several requests were already sent. > Given your email address, you should be able to forward the need ;) >=20 >>From the MAINTAINERS file: IBM POWER (alpha) M: Chao Zhu F: lib/librte_eal/common/arch/ppc_64/ F: lib/librte_eal/common/include/arch/ppc_64/ F: drivers/net/i40e/i40e_rxtx_vec_altivec.c F: examples/l3fwd/*altivec.h So Chao Zhu IBM is the maintainer of the ppc code. That was the only refere= nce I could find. Regards, Keith