> On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 5:12 PM Stokes, Ian <ian.sto...@intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > I proposed an earlier upload from git as a temporary measure to ease
> > > > the ABI transition. I worry that an ABI transition 2 months after the
> > > > transition freeze is too much to ask, even if it only affects
> > > > src:openvswitch (and src:collectd, but that's a straightforward
> > > > rebuild, no changes needed).
> > > > Nonetheless, let's see if the release team considers this acceptable.
> > >
> > > Two things worth mentioning:
> > > 1. We will have support for DPDK 20.11 in OVS by next week by Ian Stokes
> > > This was already validated vs 20.11-rc4
> >
> > Hi Christian,
> >
> > Just to clarify this, I think we will have an RFC patch to support DPDK
> > 20.11
> with OVS master by either tomorrow or early next week. We are just waiting
> on review of the patch below
> >
> >
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openvswitch/patch/20201119123554.44
> 684-1-sunil.pa...@intel.com/
> >
> > But just to clarify, once I release the RFC patch that does not mean it
> > will be
> up streamed immediately to OVS master, just that it will be available for
> review by the community at that stage.
> >
> > Support for DPDK 20.11 in OVS master will not be available until the
> community has signed off on the patch itself (which may require patch
> revisions), this may take longer than next week.
>
> Hi,
> as an FYI Ubuntu moved to recent commit def6eb1ea and for us it seems
> to work fine so far.
> See the package at:
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openvswitch/2.15.0~git20210104.de
> f6eb1ea-0ubuntu3
>
> With that confirmed and the feature freeze coming soon. Would you mind
> doing a similar upload to Debian-experimental soon'ish?
>
Hi Christian, not sure if that was targeted to myself?
As an FYI OVS master now supports DPDK 20.11 as of the following commit.
252e1e576443 ("dpdk: Update to use DPDK v20.11.")
Regards
Ian
> > Regards
> > Ian
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Christian Ehrhardt
> Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server
> Canonical Ltd
