release candidate 22.11-rc2

[Thinh Tran]

Hi,

IBM - Power Systems
DPDK 22.11.0-rc2


* Basic PF on Mellanox: No new issues or regressions were seen.
* Performance: not tested.
* OS: RHEL 8.5  kernel: 4.18.0-348.el8.ppc64le
         with gcc version 8.5.0 20210514 (Red Hat 8.5.0-10)
       RHEL 9.0  kernel: 5.14.0-70.13.1.el9_0.ppc64le
         with gcc version 11.2.1 20220127 (Red Hat 11.2.1-9)

Systems tested:
  - IBM Power9 PowerNV 9006-22P
     NICs:
      - Mellanox Technologies MT28800 Family [ConnectX-5 Ex]
      - firmware version: 16.34.1002
      - MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.7-1.0.2.1 (OFED-5.7-1.0.2)

  - IBM Power10 PowerVM  IBM,9105-22A
     NICs:
     - Mellanox Technologies MT28800 Family [ConnectX-5 Ex]
     - firmware version: 16.34.1002
     - MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.7-1.0.2.1 (OFED-5.7-1.0.2)

Regards,
Thinh Tran

On 10/31/2022 7:15 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
> 	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v22.11-rc2
> 
> There are 422 new patches in this snapshot.
> 
> Release notes:
> 	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_22_11.html
> 
> There were a lot of updates in drivers, including 3 new drivers:
> 	- GVE (Google Virtual Ethernet)
> 	- IDPF (Intel DataPlane Function or Infrastructure DataPath Function)
> 	- UADK (User Space Accelerator Development Kit) supporting HiSilicon crypto
> The driver features should be frozen now.
> 
> Please test and report issues on bugs.dpdk.org.
> 
> Thank you everyone
> 
>