From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Maxime Coquelin Subject: Re: [dpdk-techboard] [PATCH] doc: note min required kernel version increase for 19.02 Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 12:07:20 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20181010094053.21616-1-ktraynor@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Kevin Traynor , dev@dpdk.org, techboard@dpdk.org, john.mcnamara@intel.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20181010094053.21616-1-ktraynor@redhat.com> Content-Language: en-US List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" On 10/10/2018 11:40 AM, Kevin Traynor wrote: > Updating docs to reflect decision made at the techboard > that the min kernel version should be bumped from 3.2 to > the latest longterm stable release (3.16), but that > compatiblity for commonly used distribution kernels should > be kept also. > > Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor > --- > > I namechecked RHEL/CentOS 7 because they have a 3.10 based kernel and > were discussed. I can add others if requested, but not needed if their > base version is >= 3.16. > > Not discussed at techboard, but I added that the change will happen for > 19.02, so that any impacted users have some time and an LTS before the > change. Can change that if required. > > doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst | 6 ++++++ > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst > index e2230f3..ef97db9 100644 > --- a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst > +++ b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst > @@ -104,4 +104,10 @@ System Software > uname -r > > +.. note:: > + > + Kernel version 3.2 is no longer a kernel.org longterm stable kernel. For DPDK 19.02 the minimum > + required kernel will be updated to the current kernel.org oldest longterm stable supported kernel > + 3.16 or recent versions of common distributions, notably RHEL/CentOS 7. > + > * glibc >= 2.7 (for features related to cpuset) > > Acked-by: Maxime Coquelin