Attendees

• Owen Hilyard

• Honnappa Nagarahalli

• Lincoln Lavoie

• Bruce Richardson

• Lijuan Tu

Agenda

• Additions to the agenda

• Review/Carry forward pending action items

• Disallowing parsing using regular expressions

• Merging DTS into DPDK

• Review additional work items

Minutes

Review/Carry forward pending action items

• Honnappa - Patches to DPDK to address changing the constants and printfs under progress.

• No change

• Honnappa - The changes to DPDK need to be backported to LTS releases. Discuss with Lijuan and the community.

• Backporting the changes to LTS releases is the preferred option. This will allow single DTS to be used with all the releases.

• Discuss with the community if it is ok to merge these patches with the LTS release.

• All - Review Owen’s DTS contributions guide, Owen to review Juraj’s feedback.

• Closing Feedback

• Lijuan - Create release notes, capture the makefile deprecation.

• Will send out later today

• Honnappa - Follow up with DPDK governing board to get the approval/legal opinion on including the GPL licensed files from DTS in the DPDK tree.

• No change

• Owen - Look at making DTS build using the common DPDK repo in addition to the existing tarball option.

• No change

• $ meson dist

• Lijuan - The makefile removal patch is ready to get merged (http://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dts/list/?series=20610). Merge it in the 22.03 DTS release.

• Not present / No Change

• Juraj - Postponed: Convert the makefile build for documentation to use meson build after merging the repositories or the directory structure is known.

• Not present

Merging DTS into DPDK

• Are we going to integrate DTS with the DPDK build system? No resolution yet.

• Try for 22.07

• Focus on framework and test cases used in CI

• Do a deep dive on Feb 9th - identify what needs to be done and estimate the work.

Action Items

• Honnappa - Patches to DPDK to address changing the constants and printfs under progress.

• Honnappa - The changes to DPDK need to be backported to LTS releases. Discuss with Lijuan and the community.

• Owen - Owen to review Juraj’s feedback.

• Lijuan - Create release notes, capture the makefile deprecation.

• Honnappa - Follow up with DPDK governing board to get the approval/legal opinion on including the GPL licensed files from DTS in the DPDK tree.

• Owen - Look at making DTS build using the common DPDK repo in addition to the existing tarball option.

• Lijuan - The makefile removal patch is ready to get merged (http://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dts/list/?series=20610). Merge it in the 22.03 DTS release.

• Juraj - Postponed: Convert the makefile build for documentation to use meson build after merging the repositories or the directory structure is known.

• Honnappa - Discuss merge permissions for Owen for the DTS tree with the Tech Board

Any other business

• Next Meeting: February 16, 2022