On Wed, 2018-02-14 at 11:38 +0100, Maxime Coquelin wrote: > > On 02/14/2018 11:31 AM, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > On Wed, 2018-02-14 at 00:58 +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > > 31/01/2018 16:27, Stephen Hemminger: > > > > Notify users of upcoming change in kernel requirement. > > > > Encourage users to use current LTS kernel version. > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org> > > > > --- > > > > +* linux: Linux kernel version 3.2 (which is the current > > > > minimum > > > > required > > > > + version for the DPDK) will be end of life in May 2018. > > > > Therefore > > > > the planned > > > > + minimum required kernel version for DPDK 18.5 will be next > > > > oldest Long > > > > + Term Stable (LTS) version which is 3.10. The recommended > > > > kernel > > > > version is > > > > + the latest LTS kernel which currently is 4.14. > > > > > > We could print a warning at EAL init if kernel version does not > > > satisfy the > > > minimal requirement. > > > > > > Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> > > > > Note that 3.10 is dead as well since last year (as I discovered > > with > > immense joy when I had to backport meltdown fixes...), the next LTS > > in > > 3.16 which will be maintained until 04/2020. > > > > In this case we should differentiate upstream Kernel versions from > downstream ones. For example, RHEL7/CentOS7 are based on v3.10 ans > still > maintained.
Ubuntu does 3.13 as well - I think the problem is that if we want to support distro-specific LTS kernel versions, we need volunteers to do the work for them :-) -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
