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From: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: update oldest supported kernel
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 16:54:09 +0100
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On Tue, 2017-09-26 at 08:17 +0100, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> The DPDK needs to stay up to date with current LTS Linux kernel
> support.
> If the kernel is older than LTS it is likely to be insecure and
> buggy.
> Therefore only require DPDK to work on oldest LTS kernel.
>=20
> If distribution vendors want to support DPDK on older kernels, that
> is
> their choice. But the upstream source does not need to be cluttered
> with support for this.
>=20
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> ---
> =C2=A0doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst | 4 +++-
> =C2=A01 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>=20
> diff --git a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
> b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
> index eb8442c62226..b335da2c086d 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
> @@ -121,8 +121,10 @@ System Software
> =C2=A0
> =C2=A0**Required:**
> =C2=A0
> -*=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0Kernel version >=3D 2.6.34
> +*=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0Kernel version >=3D 3.2.93
> =C2=A0
> +=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0The kernel version required is based on the olde=
st long term
> stable kernel available
> +=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0at kernel.org when the DPDK version is released.
> =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0The kernel version in use can be checked us=
ing the command::
> =C2=A0
> =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0uname -r

Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>

--=20
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi