From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Qepj3-0007ho-9T for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:38:45 +0200 Received: from orsmga002.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.21]) by orsmga102.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 07 Jul 2011 07:34:53 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.65,493,1304319600"; d="scan'208";a="22652407" Received: from unknown (HELO helios.localnet) ([10.255.17.202]) by orsmga002.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 07 Jul 2011 07:34:52 -0700 From: Paul Eggleton To: "Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer" Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 15:34:51 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.6 (Linux/2.6.38-8-generic-pae; KDE/4.6.2; i686; ; ) References: <09ECC867-24F5-4CC7-8312-F00F34897B68@dominion.thruhere.net> In-Reply-To: <09ECC867-24F5-4CC7-8312-F00F34897B68@dominion.thruhere.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <201107071534.51372.paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com> Cc: Koen Kooi Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] bitbake.conf: update OLDEST_KERNEL to 2.6.0 X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:38:45 -0000 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thursday 07 July 2011 15:24:46 Koen Kooi wrote: > angstrom has been setting it to 2.6.16 for some years now, I forget which > bug that fixed over 2.6.0 Personally I don't know enough about which crusty old 2.6 kernels people are still using out there, so I figured 2.6.0 was the safest bet. A trawl of the OE history turns up these two: ----------------------------------- commit 8b0202e6e3f90a772df301e8522f9deb03e50132 Author: Tom Rini Date: Wed Mar 3 12:17:38 2010 -0700 glibc*.inc: Bump OLDEST_KERNEL to 2.6.16 Per glibc's ChangeLog, 2.6.16 is the minimum required by at least glibc 2.9 Prior to this, it was a murky 2.6.14 + patches to 2.6.16 (when it was all upstream). ----------------------------------- commit 794e8652f5c4fef71a8b9ab834b39f75b99f9420 Author: Koen Kooi Date: Thu May 21 20:30:37 2009 +0200 Angstrom 2009.X: set OLDEST_KERNEL to 2.6.16 to avoid problems with ppoll() ----------------------------------- Any further comments/info? Should we be using 2.6.16 in oe-core as well? Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre