Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-techboard] [PATCH] doc: note min required kernel version increase for 19.02

[Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>]

On 10/10/2018 11:40 AM, Kevin Traynor wrote:
> Updating docs to reflect decision made at the techboard
> that the min kernel version should be bumped from 3.2 to
> the latest longterm stable release (3.16), but that
> compatiblity for commonly used distribution kernels should
> be kept also.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
> ---
> 
> I namechecked RHEL/CentOS 7 because they have a 3.10 based kernel and
> were discussed. I can add others if requested, but not needed if their
> base version is >= 3.16.
> 
> Not discussed at techboard, but I added that the change will happen for
> 19.02, so that any impacted users have some time and an LTS before the
> change. Can change that if required.
> 
>   doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst | 6 ++++++
>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
> index e2230f3..ef97db9 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
> @@ -104,4 +104,10 @@ System Software
>           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)
>   
> 

Acked-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>