From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: [PATCH v2] doc: announce Linux support change Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2018 19:44:54 +0100 Message-ID: <20181124184454.19071-1-thomas@monjalon.net> References: <20180131152709.13853-1-stephen@networkplumber.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: ktraynor@redhat.com, techboard@dpdk.org, Stephen Hemminger To: dev@dpdk.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20180131152709.13853-1-stephen@networkplumber.org> List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" It was agreed by the Technical Board to increase the minimal supported Linux version, and written in Linux guide. An announce was missing in the deprecation notices. Fixes: 8c58f1b83759 ("doc: note minimun Linux version increase for 19.02") Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon --- v2: This is a revised version of the deprecation proposed by Stephen in January, and discussed/changed/approved in 18.11. Already applied. --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index 55a4c4089..b48486d36 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -11,6 +11,12 @@ API and ABI deprecation notices are to be posted here. Deprecation Notices ------------------- +* linux: Linux kernel version 3.2 (which is the current minimum required + version for the DPDK) is not maintained anymore. Therefore the planned + minimum required kernel version for DPDK 19.02 will be the next oldest + Long Term Stable (LTS) version which is 3.16, but compatibility for + recent distribution kernels will be kept. + * kvargs: The function ``rte_kvargs_process`` will get a new parameter for returning key match count. It will ease handling of no-match case. -- 2.19.0