From patchwork Wed Jan 31 15:27:09 2018 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Stephen Hemminger X-Patchwork-Id: 34778 X-Patchwork-Delegate: thomas@monjalon.net Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Delivered-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 102D71B7D3; Wed, 31 Jan 2018 16:27:19 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail-pg0-f67.google.com (mail-pg0-f67.google.com [74.125.83.67]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AEAE1B760 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2018 16:27:17 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail-pg0-f67.google.com with SMTP id g16so10306270pgn.7 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2018 07:27:17 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=networkplumber-org.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id; bh=zsDNDWULp5qUkVqkrSMdCFTWHPfz9nSKk8axyelUpy4=; b=PkBsIy7TWX5uastu+gZVCkfluZ4V/NSoBv2je496Ra/IqRwtw4lA6FT59FLcjW4pcp gC/J+LgbsUgQfIFc2EC/04sG56SwUcKbOD1I+OsvmBmtSQDmCuKFoj3eHtYGEpXY/OpN EkuN7NTHXGFWtIcMsF2zzSeBlurNQv1NNYPHNHgdd+OSCVlRt4NDN8YrUWTZFAQ+Y8SY lUnIAGQ31tu/3DgJ2GjVbpUyA4kaTwgKWG0jW+Qav/y70qsVXy3dGRwQWKQSTsaJOfkc 5jnYz5alz6o+xipsvQUCW8mIYnNn/2WS3wG/fWBnICbA80d4owtQHj34D9cALwZLAO7u B5JA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id; bh=zsDNDWULp5qUkVqkrSMdCFTWHPfz9nSKk8axyelUpy4=; b=l+fb3kj8zPnRT7A6jsT6F2ZV9xJZs0pVU/9Lkf4ZB8OWGhV+fH9sppYJMtlFbBBYqZ KiGcXe1IXReMVg3XLo9QH8r5Byznh0SndsIlDRPLP+A+RJgMSMVSRwiC7+c9Qpjk557o kdVxhyn/SIWiPYxzB47+0S2qr16tXcVILijLK6ifSX6lMsP7zx78Py3Oio/Ss9oKp2Pk qIEUS0JD5MUut8AnLkAYm3YOXe3u2SjLIFcg/WR5yNQGO1kJ7WAbFx/eLutZ6x007U3y iF/4GRwQ18N2ySTsd89nVJVtBv/aDTjtsbYiUkpqtPBT0A5K+v7bSq7zmlaAIakr0YYp lfkg== X-Gm-Message-State: AKwxytdJ8olcMpMRUpK0MPOjzejPzGyw1g+PRMKtGu31xo9eDGaveF6J j+YOFWoT9hU6iBUJyfyd/07Mmx9FTBA= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AH8x226//suw1FTptOvlcMeVYkZEcjdZuIddj54+6wyJvPh1IbweDg20IgTgYoAQ0hHqpD70sZt1aw== X-Received: by 2002:a17:902:380c:: with SMTP id l12-v6mr27672469plc.8.1517412436125; Wed, 31 Jan 2018 07:27:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from xeon-e3.lan ([172.92.74.152]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id k195sm25685185pgc.61.2018.01.31.07.27.15 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 31 Jan 2018 07:27:15 -0800 (PST) From: Stephen Hemminger To: dev@dpdk.org Cc: Stephen Hemminger Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 07:27:09 -0800 Message-Id: <20180131152709.13853-1-stephen@networkplumber.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.15.1 Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: add kernel version deprecation notice X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Notify users of upcoming change in kernel requirement. Encourage users to use current LTS kernel version. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon Acked-by: Olivier Matz Acked-by: Maxime Coquelin --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index d59ad598862b..31d64b27ba17 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -59,3 +59,9 @@ Deprecation Notices be added between the producer and consumer structures. The size of the structure and the offset of the fields will remain the same on platforms with 64B cache line, but will change on other platforms. + +* 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.