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 89AB62F7D for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2018 11:34:04 +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 22FA940201A0; Wed, 14 Feb 2018 10:34:04 +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 9183A2024CA7; Wed, 14 Feb 2018 10:34:03 +0000 (UTC) To: Stephen Hemminger , dev@dpdk.org References: <20180131152709.13853-1-stephen@networkplumber.org> From: Maxime Coquelin Message-ID: <69e654bb-4b8e-cfc8-8d44-840f33c85c27@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 11:33:59 +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: <20180131152709.13853-1-stephen@networkplumber.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 [10.11.55.6]); Wed, 14 Feb 2018 10:34:04 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: inspected by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.11.55.6]); Wed, 14 Feb 2018 10:34:04 +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 10:34:04 -0000 On 01/31/2018 04:27 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > Notify users of upcoming change in kernel requirement. > Encourage users to use current LTS kernel version. > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger > --- > doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++ > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > index d59ad598862b..31d64b27ba17 100644 > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > @@ -59,3 +59,9 @@ Deprecation Notices > be added between the producer and consumer structures. The size of the > structure and the offset of the fields will remain the same on > platforms with 64B cache line, but will change on other platforms. > + > +* 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. > Acked-by: Maxime Coquelin Maxime