Re: Distros supporting older kernels?

[Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>]

On 06/09/2011 06:02 AM, Steffen Sledz wrote:
> 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?
>

I guess a machine layer on top of oe-core could be something you can 
work out and add/override needed recipes in this layer.

> [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?
>