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Re: Requiring Linux 3.2 for glibc 2.24
- From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- To: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval dot zanella at linaro dot org>, Torvald Riegel <triegel at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 14:30:53 +0100
- Subject: Re: Requiring Linux 3.2 for glibc 2.24
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On 02/01/2016 02:29 PM, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> It sounds reasonable, although just raising the minimum version will result
> in some better code generation. Anyway, I think we have plenty of time to
> do the cleanup before effectively raising the kernel version.
â except on Alpha, where there are immediate benefits.
Florian