From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [209.132.183.28]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FCB31B4DD; Wed, 10 Oct 2018 12:07:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.13]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 88C493097074; Wed, 10 Oct 2018 10:07:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.36.112.48] (ovpn-112-48.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.112.48]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AEC5317F40; Wed, 10 Oct 2018 10:07:23 +0000 (UTC) To: Kevin Traynor , dev@dpdk.org, techboard@dpdk.org, john.mcnamara@intel.com References: <20181010094053.21616-1-ktraynor@redhat.com> From: Maxime Coquelin Message-ID: Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 12:07:20 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20181010094053.21616-1-ktraynor@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.13 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.43]); Wed, 10 Oct 2018 10:07:25 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-techboard] [PATCH] doc: note min required kernel version increase for 19.02 X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 10:07:26 -0000 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 > --- > > 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