On Sun, 2009-05-10 at 12:39 -0400, Daenyth Blank wrote: > On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 22:45, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: > > Now glibc-2.10 is out, I will be preparing another toolchain rebuild. One > > question that has been discussed previously is bumping the minimum kernel > > required by glibc. Bumping it too recent is full of stupid, but bumping it > > some would cut down on some unnecessary glibc workaround code. > > > > I am thinking that the minimal kernel version should be 2.6.22 which was > > released two years ago. It is the lowest kernel version that udev works with > > so people using kernels older than that need to do some workarounds anyway. > > > > Any comments/objections? > > Allan > > I think it depends how difficult it is to work around. What's involved > for a user who would be affected by this?
The user would have to recompile glibc from source. The user will need to do that from a different system though, as all the user is getting after upgrading glibc is "FATAL: Kernel too old" on every command executed. No way to revert to an older glibc, because not a single command will execute. This is why I don't like bumping this beyond 2.6.18.
