From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, "Morten Brørup" <mb@smartsharesystems.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] doc: update required kernel version to 4.14
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2022 16:31:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1935564.CrzyxZ31qj@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <98CBD80474FA8B44BF855DF32C47DC35D8722C@smartserver.smartshare.dk>
02/08/2022 18:28, Morten Brørup:
> > From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:stephen@networkplumber.org]
> > Sent: Tuesday, 2 August 2022 17.36
> >
> > The 4.4 kernel was end of life in February 2022,
> > and the next LTS is 4.9 and it is reaching EOL in January 2023.
> > The main distro using 4.9 is Debian Stretch and it is no longer
> > supported. When DPDK 22.11 is released, the 4.9 kernel would
> > only be receiving fixes for three months; therefore
> > lets make the official version 4.14.
>
> Makes very good sense to me.
Yes
> > As always, current major enterprise Linux releases will continue
> > to be supported, but those releases don't track regular kernel
> > version numbering.
> >
> > For full details on kernel support see:
> > https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel_version_history
> >
> > Debian Stretch:
> > https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Applied, thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-31 15:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-17 16:45 [PATCH 0/2] update DPDK Linux kernel version Stephen Hemminger
2022-02-17 16:45 ` [PATCH 1/2] doc: update required kernel version to 4.9 Stephen Hemminger
2022-05-26 18:23 ` Stephen Hemminger
2022-08-02 15:35 ` [RFC] doc: update required kernel version to 4.14 Stephen Hemminger
2022-08-02 16:28 ` Morten Brørup
2022-10-31 15:31 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2022-02-17 16:45 ` [PATCH 2/2] known_issues: drop note about UIO with really old kernels Stephen Hemminger
2023-07-03 23:59 ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-07-17 14:14 ` Bruce Richardson
2023-11-27 16:42 ` Thomas Monjalon
2022-02-17 16:53 ` [PATCH 0/2] update DPDK Linux kernel version Bruce Richardson
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