[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] release candidate 17.08-rc1

[Morten Brørup]

We have quite a few customers using our older hardware appliance model based on the Atom D525, and these appliances will not be firmware upgradable when we launch our DPDK based firmware. Although the Atom D525 is a 64 bit CPU, I don't know if DPDK ever supported it. If it was ever supported by DPDK, that support has also been silently removed - i.e. not mentioned in the DPDK Release Notes.

Traditionally, all of our firmware releases have been backwards compatible with all our hardware appliances, even those based on 32 bit CPUs launched more than a decade ago, i.e. before our Atom based hardware platform. The DPDK based firmware will break with this tradition, but we will be able to deal with it, probably by offering some kind of upgrade deal.


Med venlig hilsen / kind regards
- Morten Brørup


> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Monjalon
> Sent: Monday, July 10, 2017 9:23 AM
> To: Morten Brørup
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-announce] release candidate 17.08-rc1
> 
> 10/07/2017 09:16, Morten Brørup:
> > >
> > > You can read the release notes in progress:
> > > 	http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_08.html
> > > Some highlights:
> > > 	- x86 requires SSE4.2
> >
> > And nobody thought this was worth mentioning in the Release Notes or
> the Roadmap?
> 
> Yes, you're right. It must be in the release notes.
> 
> Are you using a CPU older than SSE4.2?