From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mails.dpdk.org (mails.dpdk.org [217.70.189.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 819C6A00C5; Wed, 24 Aug 2022 21:30:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [217.70.189.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 749F640DFD; Wed, 24 Aug 2022 21:30:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.bsd.ac (mail.bsd.ac [108.61.81.40]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A4D040DDE for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2022 21:30:29 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=bsd.ac; s=excisionRSA; t=1661369429; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=Yifby6CAnNkP/RycaH0gkuw48nsVDviOKlakkzy+dY0=; b=S//fUnusYpTsGk66jS1nUXWM/IyQmbIydj3yrRGPqAO2OSpqcw3QWQUy4NgB74IR/hq0Sq 4v1NN6BajLR9jDAIozW9E6jvqrNGadjNJRlOfAVLCHNPnJPNL+JZ4LM4Fu3mIzzx6owqE0 +0t6D54fH04XmzJ7zuCSsYt7z2gI3UGb9E3gQ5/PF+DrrTUpDGnhbIU+x3bAqId81Kx5Uw XIuirWfINpXHkJmrmftquqKilVGHl566y4ls80iTKNUCt6Gsrhf9b9uRWP6Fz7BDiiXW4j PzUybVcsdrqst+KeLf4HrpOX8hrxQ9PwRHYEsCy7Bhw+BwRzBrf3g3IfhUAPHg== Received: from [192.168.1.132] (pool-96-234-41-137.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net [96.234.41.137]) by mail.bsd.ac (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 17c05dbf (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256:NO) auth=yes user=aisha@bsd.ac for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2022 15:30:28 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 15:30:19 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.1.2 Subject: Re: [RFC] DPDK Distro Support Policies Content-Language: en-US To: dev@dpdk.org References: From: aisha In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org On 8/24/2022 2:26 PM, Owen Hilyard wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > At the tech board meeting today I brought up the topic of supported > Linux distros/operating systems. We came up with the following > proposal, but want community feedback before any decision is made. If > you want a distro/OS added, please reply saying so and provide a > compelling reason why the proposed distro/OS should be supported by > DPDK, or why you think that more or fewer versions should be > supported. The policy is as follows; > > Supported Distros/OSes: > * Alpine > * Arch > * CentOS Stream > * Debian > * Fedora > * Fedora Rawhide > * FreeBSD > * OpenSUSE Leap > * RHEL > * Ubuntu > * Windows Hi,   I've ported DPDK to Gentoo and it is available in the GURU overlay here - https://github.com/gentoo/guru/tree/master/net-libs/dpdk . I've kept both the latest (22.07) and the last LTS version (21.11.1) available there. FWIW, I've managed to run the unit tests and all of them are passing. I've also ported ipsec-mb there and have been running it with the Oracle UEK (https://github.com/oracle/linux-uek). I am not certain what it would mean for Gentoo to be added to the list, but I've been trying to keep the port up-to-date for the last 7-8 months and it would be nice to see Gentoo in the list. Thanks a lot, Aisha > > Supported Versions: > > Distros or OS versions in General Support will be tested. Support will > be dropped for EOL versions or versions older than 5 years. > > RHEL 7 has been granted an expectation to this due to widespread use, > and will continue to be supported until the tech board decides it is > out of widespread use. > > Additionally, "binary compatible" distros will have a single distro > selected for testing. For example, RHEL 7 will be treated as providing > testing for CentOS 7. > > Owen Hilyard > UNH InterOperability Lab