[ovs-dev] Bug#974588: openvswitch: DPDK 20.11 support and transition for bullseye

[Stokes, Ian]

> > I proposed an earlier upload from git as a temporary measure to ease
> > the ABI transition. I worry that an ABI transition 2 months after the
> > transition freeze is too much to ask, even if it only affects
> > src:openvswitch (and src:collectd, but that's a straightforward
> > rebuild, no changes needed).
> > Nonetheless, let's see if the release team considers this acceptable.
> 
> Two things worth mentioning:
> 1. We will have support for DPDK 20.11 in OVS by next week by Ian Stokes
>     This was already validated vs 20.11-rc4

Hi Christian,

Just to clarify this, I think we will have  an RFC patch to support DPDK 20.11 with OVS master by either tomorrow or early next week. We are just waiting on review of the patch below

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openvswitch/patch/20201119123554.44684-1-sunil.pai.g@intel.com/

But just to clarify, once I release the RFC patch that does not mean it will be up streamed immediately to OVS master, just that it will be available for review by the community at that stage.

Support for DPDK 20.11 in OVS master will not be available until the community has signed off on the patch itself (which may require patch revisions), this may take longer than next week. 

Regards
Ian