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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2024 11:10:24 -0800
From: Tyler Retzlaff <roretzla@linux.microsoft.com>
To: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>, dev@dpdk.org
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On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 05:33:06PM +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.

we did, tech board meeting around Jan/Feb 2023 minutes probably have the
decision recorded. starting dpdk release 23.11 RHEL/CentOS 7 are no
longer supported.

i guess the CI should only run for stable/release branches < 23.11?

> 
> /Bruce