From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2021 22:06:17 +0000 (-0700) Subject: doc: update minimum supported Linux kernel X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d2feae68bf3032259e473f2e0fedece9f099abd1;p=dpdk.git doc: update minimum supported Linux kernel The DPDK project is only committed to supporting upstream kernel versions that are still in support. The 3.16 kernel has reached End Of Life (in June 2020). The next LTS kernel is 4.4 and is supported until February 2020. This does not change the existing policy that distribution kernels that are older are still supported. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon --- diff --git a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst index 6994038d45..d95a78d156 100644 --- a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst +++ b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ System Software **Required:** -* Kernel version >= 3.16 +* Kernel version >= 4.4 The kernel version required is based on the oldest long term stable kernel available at kernel.org when the DPDK version is in development.