From patchwork Tue Nov 28 22:02:22 2017 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Thomas Monjalon X-Patchwork-Id: 31736 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 1BF60324C; Tue, 28 Nov 2017 23:02:35 +0100 (CET) Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com (out4-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE914324A for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2017 23:02:32 +0100 (CET) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.internal [10.202.2.41]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6271920E05; Tue, 28 Nov 2017 17:02:32 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 28 Nov 2017 17:02:32 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=monjalon.net; h= cc:date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:references:subject:to :x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=mesmtp; bh=JE88oADX0ivXCU 2c2wsMdrJktmd84oCg8wsqbzdcOgc=; b=TwgTZTdDOBgANRfgvzjqUg14TTwTFO Jn2xWoJxz7sBa906NUO/+BkaMfv2e8oZGm3gWYqgs2uO5rWv//7p8xPWN7q+AsC9 CSQZVJ7m4l9hsONbV65DEYV/xnWGzj8TB7R3n9su9+B7byalFojqZbwCcDxuuv7+ SQrS639oTm//w= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:date:from:in-reply-to:message-id :references:subject:to:x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s= fm1; bh=JE88oADX0ivXCU2c2wsMdrJktmd84oCg8wsqbzdcOgc=; b=VmYONBC7 5ZvI+wUnKc/zsjSUrbtjKot6EgSFNH6WGtAdVAH3lrtj8aEipxxr3lCzG+fjGoTP W0shRVVwTWchsfXcz+qNcCJrXwruGhNXMVaEU6n3WfvYHuwefK9kXh5G8Om2WzRI pFdGfSAGBh9Kc7LPI1ztqiPoTZdGSBdVIS+QCtyM4Hr9uxVqTyjENFALXrBbH+WK KfLIvF1GgttGmWqAM5gzQaKYGYOSDhCRX58pO1Nl9pQTbd5LB2beZB00SSuTT+bM /SzeyH98IUtuHDsr34rnHWWG7wMHW7UnWM38ZNV3lPzUMR3dOxHU7txqcB/h5O2S DPYyrfRn/wy/FA== X-ME-Sender: Received: from xps.monjalon.net (184.203.134.77.rev.sfr.net [77.134.203.184]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id AF71A240F6; Tue, 28 Nov 2017 17:02:31 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas Monjalon To: dev@dpdk.org Cc: stephen@networkplumber.org, bluca@debian.org Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 23:02:22 +0100 Message-Id: <20171128220222.14783-1-thomas@monjalon.net> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.15.0 In-Reply-To: <20170926071712.25009-1-stephen@networkplumber.org> References: <20170926071712.25009-1-stephen@networkplumber.org> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: update oldest supported kernel in Linux guide 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" From: Stephen Hemminger 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 Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon Acked-by: Marko Kovacevic --- doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst index 3e7fe6373..5ff740fc4 100644 --- a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst +++ b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst @@ -121,7 +121,10 @@ System Software **Required:** -* Kernel version >= 2.6.34 +* Kernel version >= 3.2 + + The kernel version required is based on the oldest long term stable kernel available + at kernel.org when the DPDK version is in development. The kernel version in use can be checked using the command::