Meeting notes for the DPDK technical board meeting
held on 2018-11-21
Attendees:
- Bruce Richardson
- Ferruh Yigit
- Hemant Agrawal
- Konstantin Ananyev
- Maxime Coquelin
- Olivier Matz
- Thomas Monjalon
0) PPC support status
- Power 8 is not supported in DPDK v18.11, Power 9 is supported
- Power support marked as Alpha in MAINTAINERS file
- Need to extend HW support page to CPUs and other devices (only NICs
for now).
1) Cleanups breaking API
- Some cleanups are planned that breaks the API (e.g. removing "name"
parameter from rte_malloc())
- Such cleanups can be done in v19.02/v19.05
2) DPDK replay tool from Jonathan Ribas
- Agreement on hosting it on dpdk.org
- Jonathan to update headers to SPDX tags
3) DPDK & SPDK merge
- Agreement on asking the governing board to consider it
- Thomas to raise this subject at governing board at US summit
4) Next techboard meeting
- It will be on December 5
- Olivier Matz will chair it
