From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx3-rdu2.redhat.com [66.187.233.73]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C389A1B1AA for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2018 11:38:21 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx04.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com [10.11.54.4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 60D438163C60; Wed, 14 Feb 2018 10:38:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.36.112.38] (ovpn-112-38.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.112.38]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5A41D2024CA4; Wed, 14 Feb 2018 10:38:20 +0000 (UTC) To: Luca Boccassi , Thomas Monjalon , Stephen Hemminger Cc: dev@dpdk.org References: <20180131152709.13853-1-stephen@networkplumber.org> <2393289.cND9ge7AvX@xps> <1518604285.4059.14.camel@debian.org> From: Maxime Coquelin Message-ID: <470fdbc6-7280-1523-da8b-91fda8fafbcf@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 11:38:17 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1518604285.4059.14.camel@debian.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.78 on 10.11.54.4 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.11.55.8]); Wed, 14 Feb 2018 10:38:21 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: inspected by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.11.55.8]); Wed, 14 Feb 2018 10:38:21 +0000 (UTC) for IP:'10.11.54.4' DOMAIN:'int-mx04.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com' HELO:'smtp.corp.redhat.com' FROM:'maxime.coquelin@redhat.com' RCPT:'' Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: add kernel version deprecation notice X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 10:38:21 -0000 On 02/14/2018 11:31 AM, Luca Boccassi wrote: > On Wed, 2018-02-14 at 00:58 +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote: >> 31/01/2018 16:27, Stephen Hemminger: >>> Notify users of upcoming change in kernel requirement. >>> Encourage users to use current LTS kernel version. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger >>> --- >>> +* linux: Linux kernel version 3.2 (which is the current minimum >>> required >>> +  version for the DPDK) will be end of life in May 2018. Therefore >>> the planned >>> +  minimum required kernel version for DPDK 18.5 will be next >>> oldest Long >>> +  Term Stable (LTS) version which is 3.10. The recommended kernel >>> version is >>> +  the latest LTS kernel which currently is 4.14. >> >> We could print a warning at EAL init if kernel version does not >> satisfy the >> minimal requirement. >> >> Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon > > Note that 3.10 is dead as well since last year (as I discovered with > immense joy when I had to backport meltdown fixes...), the next LTS in > 3.16 which will be maintained until 04/2020. > In this case we should differentiate upstream Kernel versions from downstream ones. For example, RHEL7/CentOS7 are based on v3.10 ans still maintained.