From: David Christensen <drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>,
Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Cc: Takeshi Yoshimura <tyos@jp.ibm.com>, dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] vfio: retry creating sPAPR DMA window
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 17:50:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1cfff58b-12bf-4b1c-9bf0-40ee44c7eb52@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <80114dab-b80a-9670-01af-735031f01c68@intel.com>
>>>>> @Thomas Do we still support these older distros?
>>>>
>>>> If the kernel is not maintained, we don't support it.
>>>> For most distros, Linux < 3.16 is not maintained.
>>>
>>> This is on kernel 3.13 (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS which according to Canonical's
>>> published schedule [1] has stopped receiving even maintenance updates,
>>> and is only updated for select customers). It was never an LTS kernel to
>>> begin with, i think.
>>
>> So we can ignore this issue.
>>
>
> It seems that it's also reproducible on Ubuntu 14.04 with kernel 3.19.
> Which is not an upstream LTS kernel, but it's >3.16.
>
> It also looks like it may be an issue for us specifically, so i would
> suggest reverting the patch for rc2 if the submitter/maintainers don't
> come back and fix it.
Just to confirm, these failures are on x86 builds, is that correct?
Power 9 systems aren't supported by these older distros, Linux kernel
4.6 was the first kernel with Power 9 support.
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-11 0:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-07 2:28 Takeshi Yoshimura
2019-07-04 16:01 ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-07-08 16:47 ` David Christensen
2019-07-08 17:45 ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-07-09 10:22 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2019-07-05 8:15 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2019-07-07 21:21 ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-07-10 10:32 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2019-07-10 12:17 ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-07-10 12:35 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2019-07-10 12:39 ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-07-10 16:01 ` Burakov, Anatoly
2019-07-11 0:50 ` David Christensen [this message]
2019-07-11 2:18 ` Takeshi T Yoshimura
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