doc: increase minimal supported Linux version
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Update the Linux user guide to restrict the supported kernels
to reasonnably recent enough versions.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
---
Cc: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
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doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst | 10 ++--------
doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ------
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
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On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 12:45:35 +0100
Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> wrote:
> Update the Linux user guide to restrict the supported kernels
> to reasonnably recent enough versions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
>
> ---
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
16/01/2019 19:56, Stephen Hemminger:
> On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 12:45:35 +0100
> Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> wrote:
>
> > Update the Linux user guide to restrict the supported kernels
> > to reasonnably recent enough versions.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
>
> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
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@@ -98,22 +98,16 @@ System Software
**Required:**
-* Kernel version >= 3.2
+* Kernel version >= 3.16
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.
The kernel version in use can be checked using the command::
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)
The version can be checked using the ``ldd --version`` command.
@@ -11,12 +11,6 @@ API and ABI deprecation notices are to be posted here.
Deprecation Notices
-------------------
-* linux: Linux kernel version 3.2 (which is the current minimum required
- version for the DPDK) is not maintained anymore. Therefore the planned
- minimum required kernel version for DPDK 19.02 will be the next oldest
- Long Term Stable (LTS) version which is 3.16, but compatibility for
- recent distribution kernels will be kept.
-
* kvargs: The function ``rte_kvargs_process`` will get a new parameter
for returning key match count. It will ease handling of no-match case.