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On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 12:55 +0400, Roman I Khimov wrote:
> As I can tell from a quick glance, there is no special handling for different 
> kernel versions in QEMU. It translates syscalls from target application to 
> host kernel and if we tell it to fake kernel version reported to application 
> it does so and nothing more (linux-user/syscall.c in qemu). So I don't think 
> there is any newest kernel version supported by QEMU for any target, it just 
> doesn't care.

Oh right.  Well, in that case, it's very easy: we can just tell qemu to
report itself as 9999.9999.9999 or something.  Or have a NEWEST_KERNEL
variable that's set (globally in bitbake.conf or somesuch) to the newest
kernel that might conceivably be used.

p.