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Julian Seward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sunday 24 February 2008 20:15, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Julian Seward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > So what's the oldest commonly-used distro that supported NPTL?
> > > >
> > > > RH9 is pretty much the first distro to support it isn't it?
> > >
> > > Yes. According to Ulrich Drepper "RHL9 was the first with NPTL and
> > > it served as the basis for RHEL3".
> > >
> > > So I'm inclined to declare RHL9 as the new oldest-supported-distro
> > > for the trunk, which means we can drop support for LinuxThreads,
> > > gcc < 3.0, and stabs.
> >
> > As far as I know there are still RHEL3 setups running, and RHEL3 is
> > based on the 2.4.21 Linux kernel. So how could RHEL3 include NPTL ?
>
> Because the Red Hat crew backported a bunch of stuff from 2.6 into some
> of the 2.4s they were distributing, and I think that included NPTL. At
> least -- that is my impression.
Correct - the same applies to RH9 (and FC1) as both use a 2.4 kernel.
Tom
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