release candidate 25.07-rc2

A new DPDK release candidate is ready for testing:

	https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/tag/?id=v25.07-rc2

There are 141 new patches in this snapshot.

Release notes:

	https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/rel_notes/release_25_07.html

Most significant changes are in multiple drivers.

Please test and report issues on https://bugs.dpdk.org

DPDK 25.07-rc3 is expected in one week,
with a focus on fixes, tests, examples and doc.

Thank you everyone

IBM - Power Systems Testing
DPDK v25.07-rc2

* Build CI on Fedora 40, 41 and 42 container images for ppc64le
* Basic PF on Mellanox: No issue found
* Performance: not tested.
* OS:- RHEL 9.4 kernel: 5.14.0-427.40.1.el9_4.ppc64le

        with gcc version  11.4.1 20231218 (Red Hat 11.4.1-3)

Systems tested:
- LPARs on IBM Power10 CHRP IBM,9105-22A
NICs:
- Mellanox Technologies MT28800 Family [ConnectX-5 Ex]
- firmware version: 16.35.2000
- OFED 25.04-0.6.1

Regards,
Thinh Tran

Update the test status for Intel part. dpdk25.07-rc2 all test is done. found one new issues.

New issue:
1. [dpdk-25.07-rc2] vf_pf_reset/test_vlan_rx_restore_vf_reset_all_ports: Unable to receive VLAN packets -> has fix patch

     https://patchwork.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/[email protected]/

# Basic Intel(R) NIC testing
* Build or compile:
*Build: cover the build test combination with latest GCC/Clang version and the popular OS revision such as Ubuntu25.04, Ubuntu24.04.2, Fedora42, RHEL10, RHEL9.6, RHEL9.6-RT, FreeBSD14.2, SUSE15.6, OpenAnolis8.10, AzureLinux3.0 etc.
- All test passed.
*Compile: cover the CFLAGES(O0/O1/O2/O3) with popular OS such as Ubuntu24.04.2 and RHEL9.6.
- All test passed with latest dpdk.
* PF/VF(i40e, ixgbe): test scenarios including PF/VF-RTE_FLOW/TSO/Jumboframe/checksum offload/VLAN/VXLAN, etc.
- All test case is done. No new issue is found.
* PF/VF(ice): test scenarios including Switch features/Package Management/Flow Director/Advanced Tx/Advanced RSS/ACL/DCF/Flexible Descriptor, etc.
- Execution rate is done. found the 1 issue.
* PF/VF(apfi/cpfi): test scenarios including cpfi_rte_flow/TSO/MTU/Jumboframe/checksum offload, etc.
- Execution rate is done. No new issue is found.
* Intel NIC single core/NIC performance: test scenarios including PF/VF single core performance test, RFC2544 Zero packet loss performance test, etc.
- Execution rate is done. No new issue is found.
* Power and IPsec:
* Power: test scenarios including bi-direction/Telemetry/Empty Poll Lib/Priority Base Frequency, etc.
- Execution rate is done. No new issue is found.
* IPsec: test scenarios including ipsec/ipsec-gw/ipsec library basic test - QAT&SW/FIB library, etc.
- Execution rate is done. No new issue is found.
# Basic cryptodev and virtio testing
* Virtio: both function and performance test are covered. Such as PVP/Virtio_loopback/virtio-user loopback/virtio-net VM2VM perf testing/VMAWARE ESXI 8.0U1, etc.
- Execution rate is done. No new issue is found.
* Cryptodev:
*Function test: test scenarios including Cryptodev API testing/CompressDev ISA-L/QAT/ZLIB PMD Testing/FIPS, etc.
- Execution rate is done. No new issue is found.
*Performance test: test scenarios including Throughput Performance /Cryptodev Latency, etc.
- Execution rate is done. No performance drop.

Regards,
Xu, Hailin