[dpdk-dev] Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2021-Sep-22

[Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran]

Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2021-Sep-22

Members Attending
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-Aaron
-Bruce
-Ferruh
-Hemant
-Honnappa
-Jerin (Chair)
-Kevin
-Konstantin
-Maxime
-Olivier
-Stephen
-Thomas

NOTE: The technical board meetings every second Wednesday at https://meet.jit.si/DPDK at 3 pm UTC.
Meetings are public, and DPDK community members are welcome to attend.
 
NOTE: Next meeting will be on Wednesday 2021-Oct-06 @3pm UTC, and will be chaired by Kevin


# doc: announce changes in EFD function
- TB approved the ABI change as the v21.11 release can break the ABI and it minor parameter change

# DPDK adaptation to DMARC compliant mailing list
- TB decided to have the first trial run on the web and users mailing list as it low volume traffic mailing list
- Ali to send an email on this on the announcement mailing list as the first step for migration
- Link for the announcement: http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2021-September/221037.html

# OOPS handling EAL feature
- http://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20210906041732.1019743-2-jerinj@marvell.com/
- There is no strong desire to have this feature in DPDK/EAL
- Some of the aspects overlaps with systemd in Linux OS
- Author decided to withdraw the patch due to lack of interest.

# eal: update rte_eal_wait_lcore definition
- TB approved for the ABI change as v21.11 release can break the ABI

# Update on DTS usability
- Honnappa to send the updated document on DTS usability reviews

# Slack channel - Timelines for general availability
- New slack channel details updated on the DPDK website
- Ferruh to send the details on the same on the announcement mailing list

# DPDK collaboration with ORAN AAL community
- Honnappa to share liaison note for DPDK TB recommendation
- Link for the note: http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2021-September/220949.html
- Jerin to share the same liaison note with the ORAN AAL community