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> From: Christian Ehrhardt <[email protected]>
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> Chen, Zhaoyan <[email protected]>
> Subject: 19.11.8 patches review and test
>
> Hi all,
>
> Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 19.11.8.
>
> The planned date for the final release is 16th April.
>
> Please help with testing and validation of your use cases and report any
> issues/results with reply-all to this mail. For the final release the fixes
> and
> reported validations will be added to the release notes.
>
> Note:
> This is a special interim release not following the releases of recent
> mainline
> (that was 19.11.7). Instead this addresses issues with >=19.11.6 identified
> and discussed in:
> http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/stable/2021-March/029418.html
>
> Testing-Note:
> The only changes this release has over the former one are about linking.
> We switch back to how it was <=19.11.6 since it regressed some use-cases.
> The most known one at the moment is building OVS 2.13 vs a DPDK that was
> built with meson. It seems that make-based DPDK builds are unaffected.
> Due to that this verification phase should not so much be about the usual
> performance, functionality, ... (I'm happy if you run those, but they are not
> strictly required). Instead the focus should mostly about buildability via the
> various possible combinations that exist.
>
> A release candidate tarball can be found at:
>
> https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/tag/?id=v19.11.8-rc1
>
> These patches are located at branch 19.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
> https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
>
> Thanks.
>
> Christian Ehrhardt <[email protected]>
>
[Govindharajan, Hariprasad] Hi Christian,
I tested the DPDK 19.11.8 version compilation with OvS 2.13 and 2.14 using make
and found no issues with the build and linking DPDK with OvS.
> ---
> Christian Ehrhardt (7):
> Revert "Revert "Revert "build/pkg-config: prevent overlinking"""
> Revert "Revert "Revert "build/pkg-config: improve static linking
> flags"""
> Revert "Revert "Revert "build/pkg-config: output drivers first for
> static
> build"""
> Revert "Revert "Revert "build/pkg-config: move pkg-config file
> creation"""
> Revert "Revert "Revert "build: always link whole DPDK static
> libraries"""
> Revert "Revert "Revert "devtools: test static linkage with pkg-config"""
> Regenerate meson.build changes required due to reverts
