From: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>, dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: update oldest supported kernel
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 16:54:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1507910049.17375.2.camel@debian.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170926071712.25009-1-stephen@networkplumber.org>
On Tue, 2017-09-26 at 08:17 +0100, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> The DPDK needs to stay up to date with current LTS Linux kernel
> support.
> If the kernel is older than LTS it is likely to be insecure and
> buggy.
> Therefore only require DPDK to work on oldest LTS kernel.
>
> If distribution vendors want to support DPDK on older kernels, that
> is
> their choice. But the upstream source does not need to be cluttered
> with support for this.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> ---
> doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
> b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
> index eb8442c62226..b335da2c086d 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
> @@ -121,8 +121,10 @@ System Software
>
> **Required:**
>
> -* Kernel version >= 2.6.34
> +* Kernel version >= 3.2.93
>
> + The kernel version required is based on the oldest long term
> stable kernel available
> + at kernel.org when the DPDK version is released.
> The kernel version in use can be checked using the command::
>
> uname -r
Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
--
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-13 15:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-26 7:17 Stephen Hemminger
2017-10-13 15:49 ` Mcnamara, John
2017-10-13 15:55 ` Luca Boccassi
2017-10-13 15:54 ` Luca Boccassi [this message]
2017-11-12 4:30 ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-11-15 15:55 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-11-28 22:02 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: update oldest supported kernel in Linux guide Thomas Monjalon
2017-12-12 14:20 ` Kovacevic, Marko
2017-12-15 14:24 ` Thomas Monjalon
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