-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Monjalon <redacted>
Sent: Friday, July 9, 2021 2:31 PM
To: Juraj Linkeš <redacted>; Bruce Richardson
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Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com; Ruifeng.Wang@arm.com;
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7] build: use platform for generic and native
builds

07/07/2021 15:59, Bruce Richardson:

quoted

On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 11:44:28AM +0200, Juraj Linkeš wrote:

quoted

The current meson option 'machine' should only specify the ISA,
which is not sufficient for Arm, where setting ISA implies other
settings as well (and is used in Arm configuration as such).
Use the existing 'platform' meson option to differentiate the type
of the build (native/generic) and set ISA accordingly, unless the
user chooses to override it with a new option, 'cpu_instruction_set'.
The 'machine' option set the ISA in x86 builds and set
native/default 'build type' in aarch64 builds. These two new
variables, 'platform' and 'cpu_instruction_set', now properly set
both ISA and build type for all architectures in a uniform manner.
The 'machine' option also doesn't describe very well what it sets.
The new option, 'cpu_instruction_set', is much more descriptive.
Keep 'machine' for backwards compatibility.

Signed-off-by: Juraj Linkeš <redacted>

Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <redacted>

Applied, thanks.

I did few doc formatting improvements and removed some mentions to Arm as
a SoC is not necessarily Arm (Risc-V is coming).

Ok, thanks, Thomas.