Re: [PATCH] doc: update minimum Linux kernel version

[Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>]

On Fri, 16 Feb 2024 09:29:47 +0100
Morten Brørup <mb@smartsharesystems.com> wrote:

> The system requirements in the Getting Started Guide [1] says:
> 
> Kernel version >= 4.14
> The kernel version required is based on the oldest long term stable kernel available at kernel.org when the DPDK version is in development.
> Compatibility for recent distribution kernels will be kept, notably RHEL/CentOS 7.
> 
> [1]: https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.html#system-software
> 
> If we consider it API breakage to change that, we have to wait until the 24.11 release.
> For future DPDK LTS releases, we should be more careful about what we claim to support. And again: If we claim to support something, people expect it to be tested in CI.
> 
> Disregarding the API breakage by stopping support for a system we claim to support... RHEL7 testing was changed to LTS only [2], that should probably have been applied to CentOS 7 too.
> 
> [2]: https://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/CAJvnSUBcq3gznQD4k=krQ+gu2OxTxA2YJBc=J=LtidFXqgg_hg@mail.gmail.com/
> 

This patch is too late for 24.03 release, by the time the next one happens,
we can drop CentOS 7 as well as the old kernel.