[RFC] DPDK Distro Support Policies

[aisha]

On 8/24/2022 2:26 PM, Owen Hilyard wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> At the tech board meeting today I brought up the topic of supported 
> Linux distros/operating systems. We came up with the following 
> proposal, but want community feedback before any decision is made. If 
> you want a distro/OS added, please reply saying so and provide a 
> compelling reason why the proposed distro/OS should be supported by 
> DPDK, or why you think that more or fewer versions should be 
> supported. The policy is as follows;
>
> Supported Distros/OSes:
> * Alpine
> * Arch
> * CentOS Stream
> * Debian
> * Fedora
> * Fedora Rawhide
> * FreeBSD
> * OpenSUSE Leap
> * RHEL
> * Ubuntu
> * Windows

Hi,

   I've ported DPDK to Gentoo and it is available in the GURU overlay 
here - https://github.com/gentoo/guru/tree/master/net-libs/dpdk .

I've kept both the latest (22.07) and the last LTS version (21.11.1) 
available there. FWIW, I've managed to run the unit tests and all of 
them are passing. I've also ported ipsec-mb there and have been running 
it with the Oracle UEK (https://github.com/oracle/linux-uek).

I am not certain what it would mean for Gentoo to be added to the list, 
but I've been trying to keep the port up-to-date for the last 7-8 months 
and it would be nice to see Gentoo in the list.

Thanks a lot,
Aisha

>
> Supported Versions:
>
> Distros or OS versions in General Support will be tested. Support will 
> be dropped for EOL versions or versions older than 5 years.
>
> RHEL 7 has been granted an expectation to this due to widespread use, 
> and will continue to be supported until the tech board decides it is 
> out of widespread use.
>
> Additionally, "binary compatible" distros will have a single distro 
> selected for testing. For example, RHEL 7 will be treated as providing 
> testing for CentOS 7.
>
> Owen Hilyard
> UNH InterOperability Lab