IBM - Power Systems Testing
DPDK v25.11-rc1
* Build CI on Fedora 40, 41, 42 and 43 container images for ppc64le
* Basic PF on Mellanox: No issue found
* Performance: not tested.
* OS:- RHEL 10.0 kernel: 6.12.0-55.9.1.el10_0.ppc64le
with gcc version 14.2.1 20250110 (Red Hat 14.2.1-7)
Systems tested:
- LPARs on IBM Power10 CHRP IBM,9105-22A
NICs:
- Mellanox Technologies MT28800 Family [ConnectX-5 Ex]
- Firmware Version: 16.35.2000
- OFED 25.07-0.9.7
Regards,
Riley Fletcher
On Fri, 2025-10-24 at 16:45 +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:
> https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v25.11-rc1
>
> There are 634 new patches in this snapshot.
>
> Release notes:
> https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_25_11.html
>
> Highlights of 25.11-rc1:
> - EAL option to remap lcore IDs
> - inter-domain DMA
> - mbuf optimizations
> - mbuf tracking for debug
> - cryptodev PQC ML algorithms
> - ethdev link connector info
> - Huawei SPx hinic3 ethernet driver
> - Nebulamatrix nbl ethernet driver
> - NXP ENETC4 ethernet driver
> - Wangxun Amber-Lite txgbe ethernet driver
>
> Please test and report issues on bugs.dpdk.org.
>
> This -rc1 was supposed to be released 18 days ago,
> so we are late in the schedule, sorry about that.
> We should try to close -rc2 during the first week of November.
> It means we have less than 2 weeks remaining
> for adding new features in the drivers.
> Adding features in libraries after -rc1 would be an exception,
> but it is possible.
>
> Thank you everyone
>
