Re: [PATCH] doc: update minimum Linux kernel version

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

16/02/2024 18:42, Stephen Hemminger:
> On Fri, 16 Feb 2024 09:29:47 +0100
> Morten Brørup <mb@smartsharesystems.com> wrote:
> 
> > The system requirements in the Getting Started Guide [1] says:
> > 
> > Kernel version >= 4.14
> > The kernel version required is based on the oldest long term stable kernel available at kernel.org when the DPDK version is in development.
> > Compatibility for recent distribution kernels will be kept, notably RHEL/CentOS 7.
> > 
> > [1]: https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.html#system-software
> > 
> > If we consider it API breakage to change that, we have to wait until the 24.11 release.
> > For future DPDK LTS releases, we should be more careful about what we claim to support. And again: If we claim to support something, people expect it to be tested in CI.
> > 
> > Disregarding the API breakage by stopping support for a system we claim to support... RHEL7 testing was changed to LTS only [2], that should probably have been applied to CentOS 7 too.
> > 
> > [2]: https://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/CAJvnSUBcq3gznQD4k=krQ+gu2OxTxA2YJBc=J=LtidFXqgg_hg@mail.gmail.com/
> > 
> 
> This patch is too late for 24.03 release, by the time the next one happens,
> we can drop CentOS 7 as well as the old kernel.

Applied this kernel minimum bump.

Please send another patch for dropping RHEL/CentOS 7.