[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/2] eal: resolve getentropy at run time for random seed

[Luca Boccassi]

On Wed, 2020-06-10 at 10:15 +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 09/06/2020 17:37, Dan Gora:
> > On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 2:10 AM Dan Gora <dg at adax.com> wrote:
> > > Can these patches be considered again for 20.08?
> > > 
> > > I thought that I addressed all of the issues or at least provided
> > > reasonable responses to all of the concerns.
> > 
> > So I guess I'll take that as a "no"...
> > 
> > I have to admit that I just laughed when I read the recent thread
> > about "why or why cannot we not expand our community?"
> > 
> > This is a big part of it.
> 
> It seems there is a communication issue in this thread.
> Some maintainers look to be against the solution,
> and you seem frustrated because of a blocked usage issue.
> 
> Please could you explain what is the initial user problem?
> It seems you want to run a recent DPDK with an old glibc. Am I right?

Building DPDK with a recent glibc and then running it with an old
glibc, to be precise. This model is not supportable.

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Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi