Sorry for not getting these out last week. Here are the meeting notes for the DPDK technical board meeting held on June 7th, 2017.
Attendees: - Stephen Hemminger - Thomas Monjalon - Jerin Jacob - Hemant Agrawal - Bruce Richardson - Olivier Matz - Yuanhan Liu - Konstantin Ananyev - Kevin Traynor - Harry Van Haaren - Ferruh Yigit - Gaëtan Rivet 1. Environment Abstraction Layer (bus and PCI) changes The change to EAL related to disentangling dependency on PCI are large and not getting sufficient review. This is a big change and not getting sufficient and timely review. The ARM bits are getting review but others not as much. Most of the subsystems have been updated but it appears that pdump and KNI still depend on PCI. One action item is to post a list of patches still in need of review on a weekly basis. This will remind interested parties to look deeper. A related item is that hotplug support status. The current model is limited and those limitations are not documented. More works needs to be done to get a better solution. Need a TODO for 17.08 release. The current Xen support (Dom0 only) was also mentioned but discussion of the future status of this was deferred to a later meeting. 2. Fail Safe Poll Mode driver The driver is ready for merge in current state. Consensus was for including this driver in 17.08 release. This driver (and bonding) do bring up a number of architectural issues that should be examined in future releases: better configuration, support of layered devices, and hotplug integration. 3. Hosting There have been requests to provide developer repositories (forge) on dpdk.org. The consensus was that this would be outside the scope of the current dpdk.org because of the effort, security, and management required. Possible options of pointing users at github or gitlab were discussed without resolution. The topic should be discussed on mailing list. 4. Bug tracking Previous meetings reached consensus on setting up a bug tracker. No progress was made on setting up anything. Probably better to move the topic to the mailing list, to get more input. Maybe external sites outside of dpdk.org could be used. 5. Build system The new build system was mentioned as exciting enhancement. Discussion is best done on mailing list for now. 6. Next meeting Rotating back to start, Thomas will chair.
