[dpdk-stable] please help backporting some patches to stable release 20.11.2

[Aaron Conole]

David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com> writes:

> On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 12:42 AM Xueming Li <xuemingl at nvidia.com> wrote:
>> 3cd7290c16  David Marchand   ci: catch coredumps
>
> I can provide the backport for this.
>
> But instead:
>
> Since Travis is almost unusable, 20.11 stable maintainers won't be
> able to run non regression tests.
> I would recommend backporting GHA support in 20.11.

+1

> Another thing is that the 20.11 does not have ABI checks enabled.
> At the moment, backports are easy and won't break ABI, but later, once
> v21.11 is out, we must be careful not to backport anything breaking
> ABI.
>
>
> I did the test, cherry-picking needed patches for the suggestions above.
>
> 87009585e2 - ci: hook to GitHub Actions (5 months ago) <David Marchand>
> 443267090e - ci: enable v21 ABI checks (5 months ago) <David Marchand>
> 9d620630ea - ci: fix package installation in GitHub Actions (5 months
> ago) <David Marchand>
> 1e90d1b67b - ci: ignore APT update failure in GitHub Actions (3 months
> ago) <David Marchand>
> 3cd7290c16 - ci: catch coredumps (10 weeks ago) <David Marchand>
> aa9cb78f66 - doc: fix sphinx rtd theme import in GHA (6 weeks ago)
> <David Marchand>
>
> https://github.com/david-marchand/dpdk/actions/runs/831111482
>
>
> What do you think?

LGTM