[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: add kernel version deprecation notice

[Maxime Coquelin]

On 02/14/2018 11:31 AM, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-02-14 at 00:58 +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
>> 31/01/2018 16:27, Stephen Hemminger:
>>> Notify users of upcoming change in kernel requirement.
>>> Encourage users to use current LTS kernel version.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at 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 <thomas at monjalon.net>
> 
> 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.