[dpdk-dev] Minimum kernel version for DPDK

Kevin Wilson wkevils at gmail.com
Mon Aug 20 10:46:25 CEST 2018


Hi all,
Maybe this is a silly question, please bear with me.

According to the “Getting Started Guide for Linux” in
http://doc.dpdk.org/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.html,
the kernel version should be >= 3.2.
Accrding to my understanding, there are only two kernel modules in DPDK,
namely rte_kni.ko and igb_iuo.ko.
Instead of igb_uio.ko I intend to use uio_pci_generic.ko for binding the device.

I want to work with DPDK with kernel 3.1, without using rte_kni and no igb_uio
as mentioned.

Won't the DPDK code compile for such a kernel ? won't it work ?

Regards,
Kevin


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