On Wed, 2018-02-14 at 11:38 +0100, Maxime Coquelin wrote:

On 02/14/2018 11:31 AM, Luca Boccassi wrote:

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On Wed, 2018-02-14 at 00:58 +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:

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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>

Note that 3.10 is dead as well since last year (as I discovered
with
immense joy when I had to backport meltdown fixes...), the next LTS
in
3.16 which will be maintained until 04/2020.

In this case we should differentiate upstream Kernel versions from
downstream ones. For example, RHEL7/CentOS7 are based on v3.10 ans
still
maintained.

Ubuntu does 3.13 as well - I think the problem is that if we want to
support distro-specific LTS kernel versions, we need volunteers to do
the work for them :-)

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi