Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2024-November-26

[Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>]

Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2024-November-26

Members Attending
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- Aaron
- Hemant
- Kevin (Chair)
- Bruce
- Thomas
- Morten
- Stephen
- Konstantin
- Jerin

NOTE: The technical board meetings every second Wednesday at
https://meet.jit.si/DPDK at 3 pm UTC.
Meetings are public, and DPDK community members are welcome to attend.
NOTE: Next meeting will be on Wednesday 2024- Dec - 10th @3pm UTC, and
will be chaired by Honnappa

# Lab SoW

- We got tech board quorum for voting for 2026 tasks.
- Patrick processed that into an SoW
- Governing board approved
- DTS development work being discussed

# Discussion of VLAN offload in PMD

- Discussion over patch for nbl driver that hard codes a return 0 for
vlan_offload_set callback
- https://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/20251124153545.7123c338@phoenix.local/
- vlan offload is done in software
- Issue is that existing OOT driver does this, so it would break apps vs
in-tree driver if it returned ENOSUP
- For current release, leave code as is
- For future release, consider to do some validation at ethdev level

# Driver Maintenance Discussion

- No updates

## Follow-up / Action Items

- Await update from Ajit regarding the new Broadcom maintainer
- Await Broadcom's plan for ongoing BNXT branch maintenance
- Discuss adding support-level flags to the maintainers file.
- Consider updates to documentation or policy for driver quality
expectations.
- Stephen to share proposal for marking drivers support-levels.

# AI
- Aaron ran some experiments in OVS using Claude code and Sonnet for
code review
- Results were better than CodeRabbit and Sourcery
- Aaron will select some DPDK patches to test with it