From 865cd191162ae1e4281ce5ebbf2992becd6ff42b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Monjalon Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2018 19:21:31 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] doc: announce Linux support change 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 Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon --- 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 55a4c40898..b48486d36d 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. -- 2.20.1