Is RHEL7.2 or above required for certified system?

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2(RHEL 7.2) and kernel-3.10.0-327.10.1.el7 or above is require for chip set support and for cpuscaling for the following chip sets:
E3-1585L v5
i5-6200U
i5-6400T
i7-6820HQ
E5-2660 v4
E5-2698 v4
E5-2699 v4
E5-4667 v4
E7-8890 v4