From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: [RFC] doc: update required kernel version to 4.14
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2022 08:35:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220802153543.7622-1-stephen@networkplumber.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220217164518.8262-2-stephen@networkplumber.org>
The 4.4 kernel was end of life in February 2022,
and the next LTS is 4.9 and it is reaching EOL in January 2023.
The main distro using 4.9 is Debian Stretch and it is no longer
supported. When DPDK 22.11 is released, the 4.9 kernel would
only be receiving fixes for three months; therefore
lets make the official version 4.14.
As always, current major enterprise Linux releases will continue
to be supported, but those releases don't track regular kernel
version numbering.
For full details on kernel support see:
https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel_version_history
Debian Stretch:
https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
---
doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
index 08d45898f025..ed22b6e80b4c 100644
--- a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ System Software
**Required:**
-* Kernel version >= 4.4
+* 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.
--
2.35.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-02 15:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-17 16:45 [PATCH 0/2] update DPDK Linux kernel version Stephen Hemminger
2022-02-17 16:45 ` [PATCH 1/2] doc: update required kernel version to 4.9 Stephen Hemminger
2022-05-26 18:23 ` Stephen Hemminger
2022-08-02 15:35 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2022-08-02 16:28 ` [RFC] doc: update required kernel version to 4.14 Morten Brørup
2022-10-31 15:31 ` Thomas Monjalon
2022-02-17 16:45 ` [PATCH 2/2] known_issues: drop note about UIO with really old kernels Stephen Hemminger
2023-07-03 23:59 ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-07-17 14:14 ` Bruce Richardson
2023-11-27 16:42 ` Thomas Monjalon
2022-02-17 16:53 ` [PATCH 0/2] update DPDK Linux kernel version Bruce Richardson
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