Hello,

As you say the Community Lab dropped main and next-* testing for RHEL7 when the requirement for a C11 compliant compiler was added last year, so we should already be good to go. We don't have any centos7 testing (centos8 was the first centos introduced for testing at the Community Lab).

Adding Daxue and John so they are aware the Intel Lab will want to (probably) drop the centos7 testing by 24.07.

Thanks!

On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 12:42 PM Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> wrote:

On Fri, 16 Feb 2024 09:29:47 +0100
Morten Brørup <mb@smartsharesystems.com> wrote:

> The system requirements in the Getting Started Guide [1] says:
>
> Kernel version >= 4.14
> The kernel version required is based on the oldest long term stable kernel available at kernel.org when the DPDK version is in development.
> Compatibility for recent distribution kernels will be kept, notably RHEL/CentOS 7.
>
> [1]: https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.html#system-software
>
> If we consider it API breakage to change that, we have to wait until the 24.11 release.
> For future DPDK LTS releases, we should be more careful about what we claim to support. And again: If we claim to support something, people expect it to be tested in CI.
>
> Disregarding the API breakage by stopping support for a system we claim to support... RHEL7 testing was changed to LTS only [2], that should probably have been applied to CentOS 7 too.
>
> [2]: https://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/CAJvnSUBcq3gznQD4k=krQ+gu2OxTxA2YJBc=J=LtidFXqgg_hg@mail.gmail.com/
>

This patch is too late for 24.03 release, by the time the next one happens,
we can drop CentOS 7 as well as the old kernel.