From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-iw0-f175.google.com ([209.85.214.175]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Qf3Yt-0004gC-2R for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 07:25:11 +0200 Received: by iwn4 with SMTP id 4so1549323iwn.6 for ; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 22:21:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=uLkdsabaC3hqeUrsA3xuAK0HYwkZhWyVLMrCiQi0FPU=; b=L/uDHY5fT7Uzl5WPdjjZpeikl2zlV8y5NwzkP1nMUS1dDtjsBhw8883GskdHFbSDUJ DgWq2E/pjMi1uhhbWJcZnllgvYgMjs7T9FXH8TwYsCc0+Uf2oZHjaUY4y97MHXWwGtZM K9PZROiWM4Ve71fjD05ioMbKw4Cs6uHRz+uLs= Received: by 10.231.24.193 with SMTP id w1mr1445626ibb.41.1310102478407; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 22:21:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.70] (99-57-141-118.lightspeed.sntcca.sbcglobal.net [99.57.141.118]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e23sm5851766ibe.40.2011.07.07.22.21.17 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 07 Jul 2011 22:21:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E1693CC.8080403@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 22:21:16 -0700 From: Khem Raj User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110516 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org References: <09ECC867-24F5-4CC7-8312-F00F34897B68@dominion.thruhere.net> <201107071534.51372.paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <201107071534.51372.paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com> 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: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 05:25:11 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 07/07/2011 07:34 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote: > 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. If oe-core never supported older kernel than 2.6.37 then setting it to 2.6.37 would be better IMO > > 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 >