[dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] 19.11.9 patches review and test - V2

[Ali Alnubani]

Hi Christian,

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> From: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>
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> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] 19.11.9 patches review and test - V2
> 
> On Fri, Jun 4, 2021 at 7:52 AM Christian Ehrhardt
> <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Here is version 2 of the list of patches targeted for stable release 19.11.9.
> > Thanks to plenty of helpful developers we've collected a few more
> > backports by now and sorted out a few rare compile time issues that were
> found with -rc1.
> >
> > The planned date for the final release of 19.11.9 is now 18th of June.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > A release candidate tarball can be found at:
> >
> >     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/tag/?id=v19.11.9-rc2
> 
> Unfortunately there were further build issues with new suse kernels.
> The fix for some of them, now breaks others :-/ The final fix didn't finalize
> yet, but as a TL;DR it means there will be a -rc3 down the road.
> 
> I beg your pardon for the extra work.
> If you are testing non-suse and are already deep into the tests you likely can
> continue that.
> If you didn't start your tests yet then I'd recommend holding back until -rc3
> exists.
> 

I see some build failures with gcc 11. Do we expect this release to support it?
I also see some doxygen errors with version 1.9.1 in Fedora Rawhide. Will open a Bugzilla ticket.

Thanks,
Ali