[dpdk-stable] 19.11.8 patches review and test

[Govindharajan, Hariprasad]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>
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> 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 <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>
> 
[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.


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> 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