On Thu, 17 Nov 2016 10:27:49 -0800 James Huang <jamsphon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > Nice to join DPDK community. > > read from DPDK system requirements for Linux > (http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.html) > > Kernel version >= 2.6.34 > > I'd like to know if there is any reason to block DPDK build and run on > older kernel version, i.e. 2.6.32, as carried on CentOS 6. where > gcc=4.4. > > Could we just keep our CentOS 6 64bit x86_64 OS and continuing running > 32bit applications with DPDK injected. > > or, there are good reasons *must* upgrade to CentOS 7, where > kernel=3.10.0, gcc=4.8, and re-build applications to 64bit as well? > > Thanks a lot! > > > James There are kernel modules, and the DPDK developers have no incentive do do all the back porting to older kernels. I suspect newer releases will require 3.2 or later soon.
