Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2019-11-06 Members Attending ----------------- -Bruce -Ferruh -Hemant -Honnappa -Jerin (Chair) -Kevin -Konstantin -Maxime -Olivier -Thomas
NOTE: The technical board meetings every second Wednesday on IRC channel #dpdk-board, at 3pm UTC. Meetings are public and DPDK community members are welcome to attend. NOTE: Next meeting will be on Wednesday 2019-11-20 @3pm UTC, and will be chaired by Honnappa 1) ABI policy review - Reviewed API policy (http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/2325188.Q6BSOo8498@xps/T/#u) - Thomas sent the techboard's feedback on the mailing list http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2019-November/150468.html 2) cpu-crypto API choices (http://patches.dpdk.org/cover/62489/) - Decided to form a subgroup (Konstantin, Akhil, Honnappa, Hemant, Anoob, Jerin) for the discussion - If there is no a clear majority then come back to the techboard for next level of discussions. - Option provided to have reserved field in the public data structures to avoid ABI break for future releases. 3) vfio-pf out of tree module discussion follow-up Following has been decided - Disable all kmods in 20.02 by default - Move igb_uio kernel module to new repo hosted by dpdk.org in v20.11 - The kernel VFIO maintainer thinks there _can_ be a solution for the DPDK use case. Action item to send the kernel patch and discuss with kernel community. Now, vfio_pf patch-set put on hold. It will not be not merged in v19.11 release. 4) VF port representor ops to ethdev (http://patches.dpdk.org/patch/62176/) For the benefit of existing application and driver which implemented this API, It's been decided to follow the existing logic. i.e. No change in ethdev API for V19.11 release.
