[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: increase minimal supported Linux version

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

Update the Linux user guide to restrict the supported kernels
to reasonnably recent enough versions.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>

---

Cc: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
---
 doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst    | 10 ++--------
 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst |  6 ------
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
index 29c5f47a5..8ec3af491 100644
--- a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
@@ -98,22 +98,16 @@ System Software
 
 **Required:**
 
-*   Kernel version >= 3.2
+*   Kernel version >= 3.16
 
     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.
 
     The kernel version in use can be checked using the command::
 
         uname -r
 
-.. note::
-
-    Kernel version 3.2 is no longer a kernel.org longterm stable kernel.
-    For DPDK 19.02 the minimum required kernel will be updated to
-    the current kernel.org oldest longterm stable supported kernel 3.16,
-    or recent versions of common distributions, notably RHEL/CentOS 7.
-
 *   glibc >= 2.7 (for features related to cpuset)
 
     The version can be checked using the ``ldd --version`` command.
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 5f03443f8..f9a1f8188 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -11,12 +11,6 @@ API and ABI deprecation notices are to be posted here.
 Deprecation Notices
 -------------------
 
-* linux: Linux kernel version 3.2 (which is the current minimum required
-  version for the DPDK) is not maintained anymore. Therefore the planned
-  minimum required kernel version for DPDK 19.02 will be the next oldest
-  Long Term Stable (LTS) version which is 3.16, but compatibility for
-  recent distribution kernels will be kept.
-
 * kvargs: The function ``rte_kvargs_process`` will get a new parameter
   for returning key match count. It will ease handling of no-match case.
 
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