On Fri, 16 Feb 2024 09:29:47 +0100 Morten Brørup <m...@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...@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.
