> From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:step...@networkplumber.org] > Sent: Tuesday, 2 August 2022 17.36 > > 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.
Makes very good sense to me. > > 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 <step...@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. Shouldn't we generalize your reasoning and update this too? It should reflect that we require more than 3 months to projected EOL, e.g. minimum one year. > -- > 2.35.1 >
