On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 05:33:06PM +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 09:18:49AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > While reworking tap device, one issue is how to keep (or drop) the support > > of older Enterprise releases. The tap flow support is doing some workarounds > > to include missing support, but these are not the right way to do it. > > > > The question is: is this even worth keeping? > > CentOS 7 reaches end of life in June 2024. > > CentOS 7 is using a kernel which is no longer supported. > > > > If we drop CentOS 7, that means dropping RHEL7 and would need to be > > hightlighted > > in the docs. > > I thought we had already dropped it. Centos 7 doesn't come by default with > a C11-supporting compiler.
we did, tech board meeting around Jan/Feb 2023 minutes probably have the decision recorded. starting dpdk release 23.11 RHEL/CentOS 7 are no longer supported. i guess the CI should only run for stable/release branches < 23.11? > > /Bruce
