release candidate 24.03-rc2

[Thinh Tran]

IBM - Power Systems
DPDK v24.03-rc2-5-gcd218549b6


* Build CI on Fedora 30,37,38,39,40 container images for ppc64le
* Basic PF on Mellanox: No issue found
* Performance: not tested.
* OS: RHEL 9.3  kernel: 5.14.0-362.2.1.el9_3.ppc64le
         with gcc version 11.4.1 20230605 (Red Hat 11.4.1-2)
       RHEL 9.2  kernel: 5.14.0-284.52.1.el9_2.ppc64le
         with gcc version 11.3.1 20221121 (Red Hat 11.3.1-4) (GCC)

Systems tested:
  - LPARs on IBM Power10 CHRP IBM,9105-22A
     NICs:
     - Mellanox Mellanox Technologies MT2894 Family [ConnectX-6 Lx]
     - firmware version: 26.40.1000
     - MLNX_OFED_LINUX-24.01-0.3.3.5


Regards,
Thinh Tran

On 3/7/2024 3:01 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
> 	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v24.03-rc2
> 
> There are 276 new patches in this snapshot.
> 
> Release notes:
> 	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_24_03.html
> 
> There were a lot of updates in drivers.
> The driver features should be frozen now.
> 
> Please test and report issues on bugs.dpdk.org.
> 
> DPDK 24.03-rc3 is expected in approximately one week.
> 
> Thank you everyone
> 
>