Hi!
On Sun, 07 Oct 2018, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > How much bother is it to keep maintaining alpha as a supported
> > target for glibc? Ultimately, it's a question if people want to
> > put in the time. There will always be users as long as there is
> > a supporting Linux distro, I guess.
> >
>
> The question is about if there is a reason to support a kernel/glibc version
> mismatch.
Do I understand correctly that the proposed change would break
the combination of Kernel <3.2 and newer glibcs? If so, I think
we should go ahead, 3.2 is pretty old and I would be *very*
surprised if anyone is running that old a kernel but a new glibc.
As you said, Alpha production started almost one and a half
decades ago, hardware compatibility on the kernel side is very
good (aside from weird cases like the UP1500, but even that has a
post-3.2 kernel available).
I'm sure Matt will correct me if I'm wrong about any of this.
Best,
Tobias
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