DTS Working Group Meeting Minutes - April 9, 2026

[Lincoln Lavoie]

Attendees
1. Lincoln Lavoie
2. Luca Vizzarro
3. Adam Hassick
4. Paul Szczepanek

Minutes

 General Discussion
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* Patrick Robb left the lab, as of April 2, 2026, and is working in an
non-DPDK related roles at AMD
** Patrick has volunteered to continue serving as a DTS maintainer at
least up and through the 26.07 release.
** Patrick should have submitted a patch to update the MAINTAINERS
file to list his updated contact information
** Lincoln Lavoie will be stepping in to provide DPDK coverage from
the UNH-IOL side, while Patrick’s position is being refilled.

DTS 26.07 Roadmap
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* https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WcAQS1IdUx9ilhWOK-Yy_CnCiG4REAgYw3gyTzyMnCs/edit?tab=t.0
* This was not previously finalized during the previous DPDK CI
meeting, due to light attendance.
* The above was approved as the roadmap for 26.07, Lincoln will work
with Patrick to get that submitted to the community.

Patch Discussions
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* dts: update modprobe command to be privileged
** https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20260403183519.496825-1-abailey@iol.unh.edu/
** No objections to this patch, it’s reviewed.

* dts: add ipgre test suite
** https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20260327180232.443820-1-abailey@iol.unh.edu/
** No issues, but still needs reviews, Luca will work on that in the
next couple of days.

* Lincoln will take an action to have the UNH developers submit an
email to describe the state of each open patch, i.e. new version
expected, or this is ready, or should be dropped, etc.

Bugzilla discussions
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Dean (UNH) has created a number of bugzilla tickets for ethdev issues
identified during the 26.3 development cycle.

Any other business
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* Next meeting: April 22, 2026