Distros supporting older kernels?

[Steffen Sledz <sledz@dresearch-fe.de>]

Hi Distro Maintainers,

as you could read in earlier messages of mine, we're forced to use an older kernel version (2.6.24) for our hardware. This brings a lot of problems as you can imagine (e.g. we're also bound to udev-141).

Until now we've used angstrom-2008.1 with some own patches according to the linux-libc-headers and udev versions for our hardware which were reasonably not accepted by the Angstrom maintainers (see discussions [1] or [2]).

In there current situation (angstrom-2008.1 is deprecated, the new layer concept will come up) we're looking for a new, better, less hacky solution.

My first question therefor is if there are any distros explicitely supporting older kernels (pre 2.6.27) yet? Or are willing to work on it?

[1] <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.openembedded/32375>
[2] <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.openembedded/42628>

Thx,
Steffen

PS: Does anybody know a good overview which Linux Kernel API changes were made in which kernel version?

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