Re: 19.11.11 patches review and test

[Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 8:45 AM Christian Ehrhardt
<christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 8:14 AM Jiang, YuX <yux.jiang@intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
> > > Sent: Thursday, December 9, 2021 10:43 PM
> > > To: stable@dpdk.org
> > > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Abhishek Marathe <Abhishek.Marathe@microsoft.com>;
> > > Akhil Goyal <akhil.goyal@nxp.com>; Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com>;
> > > Walker, Benjamin <benjamin.walker@intel.com>; David Christensen
> > > <drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>; Govindharajan, Hariprasad
> > > <hariprasad.govindharajan@intel.com>; Hemant Agrawal
> > > <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>; Stokes, Ian <ian.stokes@intel.com>; Jerin
> > > Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>; Mcnamara, John <john.mcnamara@intel.com>;
> > > Ju-Hyoung Lee <juhlee@microsoft.com>; Kevin Traynor
> > > <ktraynor@redhat.com>; Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>; Pei Zhang
> > > <pezhang@redhat.com>; pingx.yu@intel.com; Xu, Qian Q
> > > <qian.q.xu@intel.com>; Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>; Thomas
> > > Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>; Peng, Yuan <yuan.peng@intel.com>;
> > > Chen, Zhaoyan <zhaoyan.chen@intel.com>
> > > Subject: 19.11.11 patches review and test
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Here is a list of patches targeted for stable release 19.11.11.
> > >
> > > The planned date for the final release is 7th January 2021.
> > >
> > > Please help with testing and validation of your use cases and report any
> > > issues/results with reply-all to this mail. For the final release the fixes and
> > > reported validations will be added to the release notes.
> > >
> > > A release candidate tarball can be found at:
> > >
> > >     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/tag/?id=v19.11.11-rc1
> > >
> > > These patches are located at branch 19.11 of dpdk-stable repo:
> > >     https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable/
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
> > >
> > > ---
> > Hi Christian,
> >
> > We find many build issues on LTS19.11. But all of them have no fix yet.
>
> Hi,
> thanks for the overview - that will be useful to extend the list of
> known-issues eventually.
>
> I agree with all of those reports, and some of them are older already,
> not new to the current iteration.
> But they all fall into the same category as some former build issues
> we have seen.
> As the 19.11 series gets older it fails to build in very new
> compilers/distros for the new toolchains there being more strict.
> I'm happy to backport patches for those, but as always we will only
> block new LTS releases if we break build(environments) that formerly
> worked.

Oh and I wanted to state that I tried to start an activity to get
those resolved back when the first of those came up in summer.
=> http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2021-July/214998.html
But the activity on that was ... zero :-/

So I pick the fixes that get provided, but as mentioned above - will
not block the LTS unless we break formerly working builds.

> > https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=744       DPDK    core    dev     UNCO    ---     [dpdk-19.11.9-rc3] make build failed on Fedora34 with GCC11 and build failed on Fedora35 with gcc11.2.1&clang13.0.0
> > https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747       DPDK    core    dev     UNCO    ---     [dpdk-19.11.9-rc3] Meson build failed with ICC-19.1.1
> > https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=900       DPDK    ethdev  dev     UNCO    ---     [19.11.11-rc1] net/nfp build failure with clang 13
>
> ^^ this one has (900) a fix which I already picked and will be in -rc2
>
> > https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=901       DPDK    ethdev  dev     UNCO    ---     [19.11.11-rc1] net/i40e build failure with make and clang 13
> > https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=902       DPDK    ethdev  dev     UNCO    ---     [19.11.11-rc1] net/ice build failure with make and clang 13
> > https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=903       DPDK    ethdev  dev     UNCO    ---     [19.11.11-rc1] net/ixgbe build failure with make and clang 13
> > https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=904       DPDK    meson   dev     UNCO    ---     [dpdk-19.11.11] Meson build has some failures on Fedora35 with clang 13.0.0
> > https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=905       DPDK    meson   dev     UNCO    ---     [dpdk-19.11.11-rc1]Meson&Makefile build failed on Freebsd13 with gcc10.3.0&clang11.0.1
>
> --
> Christian Ehrhardt
> Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server
> Canonical Ltd



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Christian Ehrhardt
Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd