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Re: Requiring Linux 3.2, again
- From: Florian Weimer <fw at deneb dot enyo dot de>
- To: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 03 May 2017 16:27:20 +0200
- Subject: Re: Requiring Linux 3.2, again
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* Joseph Myers:
> When we discussed moving to Linux 3.2 as the minimum kernel version
> requirement for glibc over a year ago, concerns were expressed about how
> this would affect some containers
> <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-02/threads.html#00173> and we
> only had consensus for a change for architectures other than x86 / x86_64.
>
> Now that more than a year has passed and 2.6.32 has been EOL for a year
> more, do people still care about running distributions from late 2017 or
> later on such old kernels, or can we now move to a 3.2 minimum globally?
Parallels/OpenVZ seems to have a 3.10-based kernel now:
| * RHEL7 (3.10+) kernel.
<https://docs.openvz.org/openvz_readme.webhelp/_what_8217_s_new.html>
I don't know how far this release has propagated to service providers.
But I don't think this should fix glibc support at 2.6.32 anymore for
i386/x86_64.