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[v2] doc: note min required kernel version increase for 19.02

Message ID 20181010141416.21999-1-ktraynor@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: Thomas Monjalon
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Series [v2] doc: note min required kernel version increase for 19.02 |

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Kevin Traynor Oct. 10, 2018, 2:14 p.m. UTC 
Updating docs to reflect decision made at the techboard
that the min kernel version should be bumped from 3.2 to
the latest longterm stable release (3.16), but that
compatiblity for commonly used distribution kernels should
be kept also.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
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v2: break long lines

I namechecked RHEL/CentOS 7 because they have a 3.10 based kernel and
were discussed. I can add others if requested, but not needed if their
base version is >= 3.16.

Not discussed at techboard, but I added that the change will happen for
19.02, so that any impacted users have some time and an LTS before the
change. Can change that if required.

 doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

Comments

Thomas Monjalon Nov. 18, 2018, 11:57 p.m. UTC | #1 
10/10/2018 16:14, Kevin Traynor:
> Updating docs to reflect decision made at the techboard
> that the min kernel version should be bumped from 3.2 to
> the latest longterm stable release (3.16), but that
> compatiblity for commonly used distribution kernels should
> be kept also.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
> Acked-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
> Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>

Applied, thanks
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diff --git a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
index e2230f3..11d65b1 100644
--- a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
@@ -104,4 +104,11 @@  System Software
         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)