On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 10:54:44AM +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote:

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

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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>

--- +* 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 :-)

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I think our kernel support plans need to be two-fold:

1) we need to support a minimum "kernel.org" kernel version, which is
what the deprecation notice is about.
2) we also will be supporting LTS distributions, e.g. I would expect us to
always support the latest RHEL, so that should be noted explicitly in the
GSG IMHO.

/Bruce