October 1st, 2026 Community Meeting Notes

[Dillon Ladd]

Attendees
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Dillon Ladd
Koushik Bhargav Nimoji
Matthew Gee
Aaron Conole
Thomas Monjalon
Lincoln Lavoie

Minutes
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General Announcements
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Patchworks 4.0 effort
No update on this, still in its early stages.

CI Status
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AWS Lab
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No updates

UNH-IOL Community Lab
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Koushik’s AI tool for DTS development
To write up a document describing the tool and send it to ci at dpdk.org

AI Code Review
UNH to test Aaron's tool calling patch.
Thomas and Aaron agreed on false warnings in the AI code review being
ok, so we will not move forward with the forced JSON schema output
work.

SOW progress
To bring a 2026 retrospective and drafted lab work planning for 2027
to the next tech board meeting.

Manual Security Patch Testing
We just received a new Redhat patch version and started testing on it.
Thomas and Aaron noted that this will not be common so UNH will not
adapt the CI to manual testing.

Intel Lab
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No updates

Github Actions
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No updates

Loongson Lab
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No updates

DTS Improvements & Test Development
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Thomas merged code coverage and trex fix patches to main
UNH CI to be completely off of Old-DTS at RC3
26.11 roadmap has been finalized and sent to the mailing list.

Any other business
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Next Meeting: October 15th, 2026
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Dillon Ladd
Technical Manager, Open Source
21 Madbury Rd., Ste. 100, Durham, NH 03824
dladd at iol.unh.edu
https://www.iol.unh.edu