release candidate 25.03-rc1

[Thinh Tran]

IBM - Power Systems
DPDK v25.03-rc1

* Build CI on Fedora 38,39,40 and 41 container images for ppc64le
* Basic PF on Mellanox: No issue found
* Performance: not tested.
* OS: - RHEL 9.4  kernel: 5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4.ppc64le
             with gcc version 11.4.1 20231218 (Red Hat 11.4.1-3) (GCC)
           - SLES15 SP5  kernel: 5.14.21-150500.55.49-default
             with gcc version 13.2.1 20230912 (SUSE Linux)
           - SLES 15-SP6 kernel: 6.4.0-150600.21-default
             with gcc version 13.2.1 20240206 (SUSE Linux)


Systems tested:
  - LPARs on IBM Power10 CHRP IBM,9105-22A
     NICs:
     - Mellanox Technologies MT28800 Family [ConnectX-5 Ex]
     - firmware version: 16.35.4030
     - OFED-internal-25.01-0.6.0

Regards,
Thinh Tran

On 2/12/2025 10:49 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
> 	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v25.03-rc1
> 
> There are 478 new patches in this snapshot.
> 
> Release notes:
> 	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_25_03.html
> 
> Highlights of 25.03-rc1:
> 	- Staged-Ordered ring (SORING)
> 	- mbuf raw bulk functions
> 	- some Intel drivers merged together
> 	- Yunsilicon xsc networking driver
> 	- ZTE Storage Data Accelerator (ZSDA) driver
> 	- Intel compiler icc support replaced by icx
> 	- more function annotations for analyzers
> 	- more MSVC compatibility
> 
> Please test and report issues on bugs.dpdk.org.
> 
> DPDK 25.03-rc2 is expected in more than two weeks (end of February).
> 
> Thank you everyone
> 
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