From 90f3229fc072dbf653e6e1f1b66b4611951385be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 08:17:12 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] doc: update oldest supported kernel in Linux guide The DPDK needs to stay up to date with current LTS Linux kernel support. If the kernel is older than LTS it is likely to be insecure and buggy. Therefore only require DPDK to work on oldest LTS kernel. If distribution vendors want to support DPDK on older kernels, that is their choice. But the upstream source does not need to be cluttered with support for this. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon Acked-by: Marko Kovacevic --- doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst index 3e7fe6373b..5ff740fc42 100644 --- a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst +++ b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst @@ -121,7 +121,10 @@ System Software **Required:** -* Kernel version >= 2.6.34 +* Kernel version >= 3.2 + + The kernel version required is based on the oldest long term stable kernel available + at kernel.org when the DPDK version is in development. The kernel version in use can be checked using the command:: -- 2.20.1