Minutes 23 April 2020
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
Participants:
* Arm
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Marvell
* Mellanox
* NXP
* Red Hat
Release Dates
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* v20.05 dates:
* Integration/Merge/RC1 pushed to *Friday 24 April 2020*
* Release: Wednesday 20 May 2020
* PRC holiday on 1-5 May, need to take into account for validation effort
Subtrees
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* main
* crypto tree pulled, in progress of pulling next-net
* Not able to review rte_graph, planning to merge it in -rc2
* Merged ring patches from Konstantin and RCU patches from Honnappa
* Looking trace series, planning to have them in -rc1
* Some fixes for eal and vfio merged
* Checking fixes and changes related to ABI, from Ray and Neil
* gcc10 support
* Some fixes are missing
* Fixes can go after -rc1
* Need a long term plan for the new compiler support
* CI checks exists for new compilers
* Hash library not reviewed
* Some patches related atomic discussed in techboard,
not much to do for the release
* Windows, some patches was not ready postponed to 20.08
* Telemetry may go in -rc2
* There will be a new version, possibly today, to make it more generic
* Call to review for Windows patches
* next-net
* closed the tree yesterday, ready for -rc1
* next-crypto
* pulled for -rc1
* There are two existing issues
* Cryptodev ABI versioning, Fiona working on
* Not sure if it will be ready for -rc1
* rte_security issue, mainline is broken as of now
* Fix is in the mail list, should be merged quickly
* next-eventdev
* No more patches for -rc1, already pulled to main
* next-virtio
* Pulled for -rc1
* Some fixes for next -rc
* Mellanox vdpa queue stats patch postponed to next release
* Mellanox vdpa virtq patch requires rebase, it may wait next -rc
* Packet ring vectorized path patch under review, should be OK for -rc2
* Good to ask vector implementation from all architectures
* next-net-intel
* Most patches merged, only some fixes for -rc2
* fm10k still has build errors, postponed to -rc2
* next-net-mlx
* Some small fixes for -rc2
* next-net-mrvl
* All patches merged for -rc1
DPDK Release Status Meetings
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The DPDK Release Status Meeting is intended for DPDK Committers to discuss
the status of the master tree and sub-trees, and for project managers to
track progress or milestone dates.
The meeting occurs on Thursdays at 8:30 UTC. If you wish to attend just
send an email to "John McNamara <john.mcnam...@intel.com>" for the invite.
