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Requiring Linux 3.2, again
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 11:26:00 +0000
- Subject: Requiring Linux 3.2, again
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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?
--
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com