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{ "id": 57655, "url": "http://patches.dpdk.org/api/covers/57655/?format=api", "web_url": "http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/cover/20190813112843.27072-1-christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com/", "project": { "id": 1, "url": "http://patches.dpdk.org/api/projects/1/?format=api", "name": "DPDK", "link_name": "dpdk", "list_id": "dev.dpdk.org", "list_email": "dev@dpdk.org", "web_url": "http://core.dpdk.org", "scm_url": "git://dpdk.org/dpdk", "webscm_url": "http://git.dpdk.org/dpdk", "list_archive_url": "https://inbox.dpdk.org/dev", "list_archive_url_format": "https://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/{}", "commit_url_format": "" }, "msgid": "<20190813112843.27072-1-christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>", "list_archive_url": "https://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/20190813112843.27072-1-christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com", "date": "2019-08-13T11:28:42", "name": "[0/1] PPC64 buid error in 19.08", "submitter": { "id": 382, "url": "http://patches.dpdk.org/api/people/382/?format=api", "name": "Christian Ehrhardt", "email": "christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com" }, "mbox": "http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/cover/20190813112843.27072-1-christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com/mbox/", "series": [ { "id": 6028, "url": "http://patches.dpdk.org/api/series/6028/?format=api", "web_url": "http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=6028", "date": "2019-08-13T11:28:42", "name": "PPC64 buid error in 19.08", "version": 1, "mbox": "http://patches.dpdk.org/series/6028/mbox/" } ], "comments": "http://patches.dpdk.org/api/covers/57655/comments/", "headers": { "Return-Path": "<dev-bounces@dpdk.org>", "X-Original-To": "patchwork@dpdk.org", "Delivered-To": "patchwork@dpdk.org", "Received": [ "from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1])\n\tby dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7FBD1BE0C;\n\tTue, 13 Aug 2019 13:28:49 +0200 (CEST)", "from youngberry.canonical.com (youngberry.canonical.com\n\t[91.189.89.112]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 590B91B952\n\tfor <dev@dpdk.org>; Tue, 13 Aug 2019 13:28:49 +0200 (CEST)", "from 2.general.paelzer.uk.vpn ([10.172.196.173]\n\thelo=localhost.localdomain)\n\tby youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa\n\t(TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32)\n\t(Exim 4.76) (envelope-from <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>)\n\tid 1hxUyu-0005xN-Uh; Tue, 13 Aug 2019 11:28:49 +0000" ], "From": "Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>", "To": "dev <dev@dpdk.org>", "Cc": "Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>, Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>, \n\tFrank Heimes <frank.heimes@canonical.com>,\n\tChristian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>", "Date": "Tue, 13 Aug 2019 13:28:42 +0200", "Message-Id": "<20190813112843.27072-1-christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>", "X-Mailer": "git-send-email 2.22.0", "MIME-Version": "1.0", "Content-Type": "text/plain; charset=UTF-8", "Content-Transfer-Encoding": "8bit", "Subject": "[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/1] PPC64 buid error in 19.08", "X-BeenThere": "dev@dpdk.org", "X-Mailman-Version": "2.1.15", "Precedence": "list", "List-Id": "DPDK patches and discussions <dev.dpdk.org>", "List-Unsubscribe": "<https://mails.dpdk.org/options/dev>,\n\t<mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=unsubscribe>", "List-Archive": "<http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/>", "List-Post": "<mailto:dev@dpdk.org>", "List-Help": "<mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=help>", "List-Subscribe": "<https://mails.dpdk.org/listinfo/dev>,\n\t<mailto:dev-request@dpdk.org?subject=subscribe>", "Errors-To": "dev-bounces@dpdk.org", "Sender": "\"dev\" <dev-bounces@dpdk.org>" }, "content": "A build of recent DPDK 19.08 on all Ubuntu architectures returned this on ppc64:\n ../drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4_rxtx.c: In function ‘mlx4_tx_burst’:\n ../drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4_rxtx.c:919:14: error: incompatible types when\n initializing type ‘__vector __bool int’ {aka ‘__vector(4) __bool int’}\n using type ‘int’\n 919 | bool tso = txq->priv->tso && (buf->ol_flags & PKT_TX_TCP_SEG);\n | ^~~\n ../drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4_rxtx.c:938:7: error: used vector type where scalar\n is required\n 938 | if (tso) {\n | ^~~\n\nWhich reminds everyone of the sad caps-lock story [1] which happened on 18.08.\nBack then the fix was [2] and a discussion around ppc64 support state\nhappened, given that it wasn't even build-tested before release.\n\nWe might have to have the same discussion again, but for now I provided\nthe fix for the build fail on mlx4 implemented the same way as it was\ndone on mlx5 [2].\n\n[1]: https://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2018-August/110472.html\n[2]: https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/commit/?id=725f5dd0bfb50192a2d2341d4cc69084c2c4e03d\n\nChristian Ehrhardt (1):\n net/mlx4: fix build on PPC64\n\n drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4_utils.h | 10 ++++++++++\n 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)" }