Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2024-November-26 Members Attending ***************** - Aaron - Hemant - Kevin (Chair) - Bruce - Thomas - Morten - Stephen - Konstantin - Jerin
NOTE: The technical board meetings every second Wednesday at https://meet.jit.si/DPDK at 3 pm UTC. Meetings are public, and DPDK community members are welcome to attend. NOTE: Next meeting will be on Wednesday 2024- Dec - 10th @3pm UTC, and will be chaired by Honnappa # Lab SoW - We got tech board quorum for voting for 2026 tasks. - Patrick processed that into an SoW - Governing board approved - DTS development work being discussed # Discussion of VLAN offload in PMD - Discussion over patch for nbl driver that hard codes a return 0 for vlan_offload_set callback - https://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/[email protected]/ - vlan offload is done in software - Issue is that existing OOT driver does this, so it would break apps vs in-tree driver if it returned ENOSUP - For current release, leave code as is - For future release, consider to do some validation at ethdev level # Driver Maintenance Discussion - No updates ## Follow-up / Action Items - Await update from Ajit regarding the new Broadcom maintainer - Await Broadcom's plan for ongoing BNXT branch maintenance - Discuss adding support-level flags to the maintainers file. - Consider updates to documentation or policy for driver quality expectations. - Stephen to share proposal for marking drivers support-levels. # AI - Aaron ran some experiments in OVS using Claude code and Sonnet for code review - Results were better than CodeRabbit and Sourcery - Aaron will select some DPDK patches to test with it
