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From: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: add kernel version deprecation notice
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 11:38:17 +0100
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On 02/14/2018 11:31 AM, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-02-14 at 00:58 +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
>> 31/01/2018 16:27, Stephen Hemminger:
>>> Notify users of upcoming change in kernel requirement.
>>> Encourage users to use current LTS kernel version.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
>>> ---
>>> +* linux: Linux kernel version 3.2 (which is the current minimum
>>> required
>>> +  version for the DPDK) will be end of life in May 2018. Therefore
>>> the planned
>>> +  minimum required kernel version for DPDK 18.5 will be next
>>> oldest Long
>>> +  Term Stable (LTS) version which is 3.10. The recommended kernel
>>> version is
>>> +  the latest LTS kernel which currently is 4.14.
>>
>> We could print a warning at EAL init if kernel version does not
>> satisfy the
>> minimal requirement.
>>
>> Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> 
> Note that 3.10 is dead as well since last year (as I discovered with
> immense joy when I had to backport meltdown fixes...), the next LTS in
> 3.16 which will be maintained until 04/2020.
> 

In this case we should differentiate upstream Kernel versions from
downstream ones. For example, RHEL7/CentOS7 are based on v3.10 ans still
maintained.