On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 12:58:34AM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:

31/01/2018 16:27, Stephen Hemminger:

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Notify users of upcoming change in kernel requirement.
Encourage users to use current LTS kernel version.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
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+* 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 <redacted>

Acked-by: Olivier Matz <redacted>