[dpdk-dev] minutes of techboard meeting 2019-05-15
Bruce Richardson
bruce.richardson at intel.com
Wed Jun 26 12:18:30 CEST 2019
Attendees:
- Bruce Richardson
- Ferruh Yigit
- Jerin Jacob
- Konstantin Ananyev
- Maxime Conquelin
- Olivier Matz
- Stephen Hemminger
- Thomas Monjalon
Meeting Minutes 2019-05-15
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Item #1: DPDK Developer Survey
- Discussion deferred till next meeting
Item #2: SW bbdev Driver in DPDK
- Brief problem description:
- turbo_sw PMD has a dependency on FlexRAN SW libraries, which
cannot be downloaded without an SLA
- FlexRAN libraries also have a dependency on ICC, while
similarly cannot be downloaded and installed without an SLA
- Thomas has been asking for a solution since End 2018, with
little progress, so issue being brought to technical board
- Agreement that the issue here is with the turbo_sw PMD specifically
rather than bbdev framework
- Discussion followed on what is acceptable or not for drivers in
DPDK and their dependencies. Some points of consensus, some open
issues.
- Agreement that all DPDK PMDs themselves must be possible to
compile with a DPDK supported compiler - GCC and/or clang
- All PMDs must be possible for maintainers to compile, in order
to maintain those PMDs
- this implies that all dependencies of the PMDs are easily
available for maintainers to download.
- General consensus seems to be that so long as a dependency is
freely available, binary rather than source is ok
- there is already a precedent for this with existing PMDs
- Consensus that the issue with turbo_sw PMD needs to be resolved in
this release, proposed target is rc1
- Idea of having a staging area for drivers was proposed, idea was
not generally liked.
- Issue will be worked by tech board along with PMD maintainers to see
what resolution can be reached quickly.
Item #3: ABI Policy
- Issue deferred due to lack of time
- Issue to be Item #1 on next week's agenda
Item #4: Security Policy
- The mailing list "security-prerelease at dpdk.org" has been created
- Member companies must apply to join this list to be informed in
advance of security issues
- requests to join are to be sent to techboard at dpdk.org
- the technical board must then approve those requests
- companies can have more than one address registered, but
should keep number very small
Item #5: Removal of examples
- Follow on from last week - to be discussed publically on mailing
list rather than just in technical board
Next Meeting: 22nd May 2019. To be chaired by Ferruh Yigit.
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