On 8/24/2022 2:26 PM, Owen Hilyard wrote:
Hello Everyone,
At the tech board meeting today I brought up the topic of supported
Linux distros/operating systems. We came up with the following
proposal, but want community feedback before any decision is made. If
you want a distro/OS added, please reply saying so and provide a
compelling reason why the proposed distro/OS should be supported by
DPDK, or why you think that more or fewer versions should be
supported. The policy is as follows;
Supported Distros/OSes:
* Alpine
* Arch
* CentOS Stream
* Debian
* Fedora
* Fedora Rawhide
* FreeBSD
* OpenSUSE Leap
* RHEL
* Ubuntu
* Windows
Hi,
I've ported DPDK to Gentoo and it is available in the GURU overlay
here - https://github.com/gentoo/guru/tree/master/net-libs/dpdk .
I've kept both the latest (22.07) and the last LTS version (21.11.1)
available there. FWIW, I've managed to run the unit tests and all of
them are passing. I've also ported ipsec-mb there and have been running
it with the Oracle UEK (https://github.com/oracle/linux-uek).
I am not certain what it would mean for Gentoo to be added to the list,
but I've been trying to keep the port up-to-date for the last 7-8 months
and it would be nice to see Gentoo in the list.
Thanks a lot,
Aisha
Supported Versions:
Distros or OS versions in General Support will be tested. Support will
be dropped for EOL versions or versions older than 5 years.
RHEL 7 has been granted an expectation to this due to widespread use,
and will continue to be supported until the tech board decides it is
out of widespread use.
Additionally, "binary compatible" distros will have a single distro
selected for testing. For example, RHEL 7 will be treated as providing
testing for CentOS 7.
Owen Hilyard
UNH InterOperability Lab
