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To: "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] vfio: retry creating sPAPR DMA window
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>>>>> @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