[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: announce Linux support change

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Sat Nov 24 19:44:54 CET 2018


It was agreed by the Technical Board to increase the minimal
supported Linux version, and written in Linux guide.
An announce was missing in the deprecation notices.

Fixes: 8c58f1b83759 ("doc: note minimun Linux version increase for 19.02")

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
---
v2: This is a revised version of the deprecation proposed by Stephen
in January, and discussed/changed/approved in 18.11.

Already applied.
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 55a4c4089..b48486d36 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -11,6 +11,12 @@ API and ABI deprecation notices are to be posted here.
 Deprecation Notices
 -------------------
 
+* linux: Linux kernel version 3.2 (which is the current minimum required
+  version for the DPDK) is not maintained anymore. Therefore the planned
+  minimum required kernel version for DPDK 19.02 will be the next oldest
+  Long Term Stable (LTS) version which is 3.16, but compatibility for
+  recent distribution kernels will be kept.
+
 * kvargs: The function ``rte_kvargs_process`` will get a new parameter
   for returning key match count. It will ease handling of no-match case.
 
-- 
2.19.0



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