On Tue, 2017-09-26 at 08:17 +0100, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > The DPDK needs to stay up to date with current LTS Linux kernel > support. > If the kernel is older than LTS it is likely to be insecure and > buggy. > Therefore only require DPDK to work on oldest LTS kernel. > > If distribution vendors want to support DPDK on older kernels, that > is > their choice. But the upstream source does not need to be cluttered > with support for this. > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org> > --- > doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst | 4 +++- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst > b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst > index eb8442c62226..b335da2c086d 100644 > --- a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst > +++ b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst > @@ -121,8 +121,10 @@ System Software > > **Required:** > > -* Kernel version >= 2.6.34 > +* Kernel version >= 3.2.93 > > + The kernel version required is based on the oldest long term > stable kernel available > + at kernel.org when the DPDK version is released. > The kernel version in use can be checked using the command:: > > uname -r
Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org> -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
