Hi 03/05/2018 16:20, Shahar Salzman: > I am using spdk, hence dpdk. Following the termination of CentOS6 > support, I did some work in order to get dpdk to work on CentOS6 > (gcc version 4.4.7).
CentOS6 is really old. > I had to remove some of the modules due to compilation errors, > use -fno-strict-aliasing to avoid non issues dereferencing > void* arrays and a single patch in the code which has to do > with the way my gcc handles the attribure deprecated. > > I did all my work on dpdk tag v18.02. > Would you consider taking some of this to dpdk? > It would be really helpful for us to maintain support for > CentOS6 and its toolchain, at least in the near future, > and we would like to use the latest dpdk stable. For such an old distribution, we cannot put expectations on the latest releases of DPDK, unfortunately. Is there a DPDK package for CentOS6? If not, better to use old DPDK, or switch to a recent distribution.
