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Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 01:23:13 -0700
From: Tyler Retzlaff <roretzla@linux.microsoft.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] RHEL 7 support
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On Fri, Jul 09, 2021 at 08:33:28PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to open a discussion about RHEL 7 support in DPDK.
> How long do we want to support it in new DPDK versions?
> Can we drop RHEL 7 support starting DPDK 21.11?

did this thread/question ever reach conclusion?

> 
> If we decide to drop RHEL 7 support, does it mean we can generally use
> standard C11 atomics?

this is still desirable from the perspective of the windows port.