Call for help - fixes for 19.11.x in regard to new toolchains, kernels ...

[Wang, Haiyue]

Hi Christian,

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> Subject: Re: Call for help - fixes for 19.11.x in regard to new toolchains, kernels ...
> 
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 9:38 AM Christian Ehrhardt
> <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello everyone and maintainers in particular,
> >
> > I wanted to use this chance for an extra call for help before we later
> > on this year call 19.11
> > EOL and done. There have been a bunch of issues found in the 19.11 testing.
> >
> > We have had a few extra respins of 19.11.9 this time which resolved a
> > few of them, but others are still left. They are mostly due to new
> > toolchains and seem not to apply to 20.11 and later.
> > But there are also no clear fixes known to me (have not come up in the
> > discussions and not tagged for stable@) to resolve them.
> >
> > I have linked to the release notes in the announcement mail, but I
> > expect only a few will scroll through to the known issues. Due to
> > various other responsibilities and an upcoming PTO I can't spend much
> > time before we are back in backporting-efforts for 19.11.10.
> > Therefore I wanted to reach out explicitly for anyone willing and able
> > to help to have a look at those issues to maybe resolve a bunch of
> > them in 19.11.10 later on this year.
> >
> > The list of known issues in 19.11.9 are:
> > - A Build issue with clang 12.0.1
> >   https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=745
> > - A make build issue with Fedora 34 with GCC11
> >   https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=744
> > - Meson based build issues with ICC-19.1.1
> >   https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747
> > - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 fails of kni build
> >   https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728
> >   http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/stable/2021-June/031210.html)
> 
> Since this overall topic seems to come up on every new stable release,
> let me add a few new bugs of the same kind that got filed recently
> (thanks test teams!)
> 
> Of the above:
> - 745 is fixed in 19.11.11-rc1
> - 900 reported on 19.11.11-rc1 fixed in 19.11.11-rc2 (about to be released)
> - 728 is fixed in 19.11.11-rc2 (about to be released)
> 


> new:
> https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=901       DPDK    ethdev  dev
>   [19.11.11-rc1] net/i40e build failure with make and clang 13
> https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=902       DPDK    ethdev  dev
>   [19.11.11-rc1] net/ice build failure with make and clang 13
> https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=903       DPDK    ethdev  dev
>   [19.11.11-rc1] net/ixgbe build failure with make and clang 13

Just send for 19.11 stable ? Or send to main tree too ? Since main tree code
have the same design, but no compile issue. (for meson design ?)

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> > Christian Ehrhardt
> > Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server
> > Canonical Ltd
> 
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> Christian Ehrhardt
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