[dpdk-dev] Call for help - fixes for 19.11.x in regard to new toolchains, kernels ...

[Christian Ehrhardt]

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)

P.S. Thanks @David for encouraging me to bring it up here.
P.P.S. I've submitted this to everyone listed in the current
Maintainers file, sorry if that hits a few people more than needed,
but better that way than being missed.

-- 
Christian Ehrhardt
Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd