From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: "Morten Brørup" <mb@smartsharesystems.com>
Cc: "Patrick Robb" <probb@iol.unh.edu>,
"Aaron Conole" <aconole@redhat.com>, <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: update minimum Linux kernel version
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2024 09:42:52 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240216094252.0d3505fa@hermes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <98CBD80474FA8B44BF855DF32C47DC35E9F223@smartserver.smartshare.dk>
On Fri, 16 Feb 2024 09:29:47 +0100
Morten Brørup <mb@smartsharesystems.com> wrote:
> The system requirements in the Getting Started Guide [1] says:
>
> 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.
> Compatibility for recent distribution kernels will be kept, notably RHEL/CentOS 7.
>
> [1]: https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.html#system-software
>
> If we consider it API breakage to change that, we have to wait until the 24.11 release.
> For future DPDK LTS releases, we should be more careful about what we claim to support. And again: If we claim to support something, people expect it to be tested in CI.
>
> Disregarding the API breakage by stopping support for a system we claim to support... RHEL7 testing was changed to LTS only [2], that should probably have been applied to CentOS 7 too.
>
> [2]: https://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/CAJvnSUBcq3gznQD4k=krQ+gu2OxTxA2YJBc=J=LtidFXqgg_hg@mail.gmail.com/
>
This patch is too late for 24.03 release, by the time the next one happens,
we can drop CentOS 7 as well as the old kernel.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-02-16 17:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-01-10 16:57 Stephen Hemminger
2024-01-11 9:18 ` Morten Brørup
2024-01-11 18:48 ` Aaron Conole
2024-01-11 19:02 ` Patrick Robb
2024-01-11 19:26 ` Morten Brørup
2024-01-11 19:50 ` Patrick Robb
2024-01-11 19:54 ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-01-11 22:38 ` Morten Brørup
2024-02-16 3:05 ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-02-16 8:29 ` Morten Brørup
2024-02-16 17:22 ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-02-16 17:42 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2024-02-17 19:48 ` Patrick Robb
2024-07-29 20:07 ` Thomas Monjalon
2024-07-30 23:27 ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-07-30 23:40 ` [PATCH] doc: no longer support end of life CentOS versions Stephen Hemminger
2024-11-19 15:34 ` Thomas Monjalon
2024-11-19 18:40 ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-11-19 19:38 ` Thomas Monjalon
2024-11-19 23:09 ` [PATCH v2] " Stephen Hemminger
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