From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: "Morten Brørup" <mb@smartsharesystems.com>
Cc: Cody Cheng <ccheng@iol.unh.edu>,
Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>,
Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
<techboard@dpdk.org>,
"Tyler Retzlaff" <roretzla@linux.microsoft.com>,
Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>, <dev@dpdk.org>,
Ali Alnubani <alialnu@nvidia.com>, <galco@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: Clarification on Minimum Supported Kernel Version for DPDK
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 08:34:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Z90kpNrf8HjicUkI@bricha3-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <98CBD80474FA8B44BF855DF32C47DC35E9FB37@smartserver.smartshare.dk>
On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 07:28:45AM +0100, Morten Brørup wrote:
> @Kevin, @Stephen, @Bruce,
>
> I cannot reliably answer Cody's question, and it may need further discussion.
>
> What is your opinion on minimum Linux kernel version requirements?
>
> @Thomas: In the future, the DPDK release notes should mention the minimum Linux kernel requirements.
>
Another question is - should we even have a minimum kernel version? Are we
aware of any kernel features beyond vfio-pci driver which DPDK requires to
run? As a userspace application, I think DPDK should just work with
whatever distro-provided kernel is provided (assuming distro is relatively
recent).
/Bruce
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-03-21 8:35 UTC|newest]
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2025-03-21 6:28 ` Morten Brørup
2025-03-21 8:34 ` Bruce Richardson [this message]
2025-03-21 10:42 ` Morten Brørup
2025-03-21 15:52 ` Stephen Hemminger
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