From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: DPDK kernel requirements
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 01:45:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4318505.uD02kM9JbA@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180130163141.08109975@xeon-e3>
31/01/2018 01:31, Stephen Hemminger:
> Where is the minimum Linux kernel version requirement documented.
>
> For 18.02 the version should be kernel version 3.2 or greater.
It is your patch:
http://dpdk.org/commit/90f3229fc0
> Since 3.2 will EOL if May, for 18.05 the requirement will advance to next LTS kernel
> which is 3.16. It would be good to put in a deprecation warning about that in 18.02
> release; for warned is for armed.
Yes, feel free to write a deprecation notice in
doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> Since 3.16 is good until April 2020, it will be several more releases until the
> horizon can be moved again.
OK thanks for the info.
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