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[204.195.123.141]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id st12-20020a17090b1fcc00b0028ffc524086sm8873552pjb.24.2024.01.30.09.45.16 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Tue, 30 Jan 2024 09:45:16 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2024 09:45:15 -0800 From: Stephen Hemminger To: Bruce Richardson Cc: Subject: Re: CentOs End of Life? Message-ID: <20240130094515.08631412@hermes.local> In-Reply-To: References: <20240130091849.0c2b7b8b@hermes.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org On Tue, 30 Jan 2024 17:33:06 +0000 Bruce Richardson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 09:18:49AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > While reworking tap device, one issue is how to keep (or drop) the support > > of older Enterprise releases. The tap flow support is doing some workarounds > > to include missing support, but these are not the right way to do it. > > > > The question is: is this even worth keeping? > > CentOS 7 reaches end of life in June 2024. > > CentOS 7 is using a kernel which is no longer supported. > > > > If we drop CentOS 7, that means dropping RHEL7 and would need to be hightlighted > > in the docs. > > I thought we had already dropped it. Centos 7 doesn't come by default with > a C11-supporting compiler. > > /Bruce Well my recent patches were getting hit in CI by: Meson Build Summary: 24 Builds Done, 23 Successful, 1 Failures, 0 Blocked +-------------------+------------+--------------+------------+------------+-----------+----------+------------+ | os | gcc-static | clang-static | icc-static | gcc-shared | gcc-debug | document | gcc-16byte | +-------------------+------------+--------------+------------+------------+-----------+----------+------------+ | OpenAnolis8.8-64 | pass | | | | | | | | FreeBSD13-64 | pass | pass | | pass | pass | | | | RHEL92-64 | pass | pass | | pass | pass | | | | SUSE15-64 | pass | pass | | | | | | | CBL-Mariner2.0-64 | pass | | | | | | | | UB2204-32 | pass | | | | | | | | RHEL89-64 | pass | | | | | | | | UB2204-64 | pass | pass | | | | pass | pass | | CentOS79-64 | fail | | | | | | | <<<<<<< This needs to go | RHEL92-64Rt | pass | | | | | | | | UB2310-64 | pass | | | | | | | | FC39-64 | pass | pass | | | | | | | UB2204-64Rt | pass | | | | | | | +-------------------+------------+--------------+------------+------------+-----------+----------+------------+