Clarification on Minimum Supported Kernel Version for DPDK

[Bruce Richardson]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 07:28:45AM +0100, Morten Brørup wrote:
> @Kevin, @Stephen, @Bruce,
> 
> I cannot reliably answer Cody's question, and it may need further discussion.
> 
> What is your opinion on minimum Linux kernel version requirements?
> 
> @Thomas: In the future, the DPDK release notes should mention the minimum Linux kernel requirements.
> 

Another question is - should we even have a minimum kernel version? Are we
aware of any kernel features beyond vfio-pci driver which DPDK requires to
run? As a userspace application, I think DPDK should just work with
whatever distro-provided kernel is provided (assuming distro is relatively
recent).

/Bruce