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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] RHEL 7 support
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On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 05:34:21PM +0000, Honnappa Nagarahalli wrote:
> <snip>
> 
> > 
> > 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?
> I think the concerns were from Redhat and Intel.
> 
> > 
> > If we decide to drop RHEL 7 support, does it mean we can generally use
> > standard C11 atomics?
> What is the next RHEL version we support officially?
> If we adopt C11 atomic APIs, we need to think about windows support too.

fwiw i don't think there is an issue with windows support for
clang/mingw they implement C11 stdatomic.h