Roman Kyrylych wrote: > 2007/8/22, Dimitrios Apostolou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> There are 2 issues that certainly affect the age of the kernel you can use: >> >> 1) glibc, mostly (only?) because of the linuxthreads to NPTL migration. >> You can't use glibc>2.3 without an NPTL supporting kernel, which is >> version 2.6. >> 2) udev, which needs the new uevent subsystem, introduced in kernel >> version 2.6.13. >> > > Also there is a problem with package upgrading: > http://archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2007-August/009114.html
Very interesting. In a few words the whole system is broken with kernels <2.6.13 because it glibc was built with --enable-kernel=2.6.13. I wonder what improvements does this option offer. IMHO such options should be avoided if they don't clearly offer advantages, they are very hard to diagnose. Thanks, Dimitris _______________________________________________ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
