Linux kernel version support policy
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
Wed Jan 29 14:46:00 GMT 2014
On Wed, 29 Jan 2014, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 03:20:00AM -0700, Adam Conrad wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 03:08:05PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
> > >
> > > Debian: 2.6.32
> > > Ubuntu: 2.6.32 or 2.6.24 depending on architecture
> >
> > This will be 2.6.32 across the board the day we ditch some old 2.6.24
> > Xen-on-x86 kit in our infrastructure. We chose 2.6.32 intentionally
> > to be backward compatible with setting up chroots on squeeze, lucid,
> > and RHEL6. Anything older than that really doesn't seem worth me even
> > trying to support.
>
> RHEL-6 runs the 2.6.32 kernel, but its glibc is built with
> --enable-kernel=2.6.18.
So, do you have views on:
* general policy (my suggestion is that we default to not supporting
kernel versions not maintained upstream, unless we believe in a particular
case that there are important distribution versions using those kernels
that make it desirable to support using them);
* moving to requiring 2.6.32, the oldest currently-maintained kernel
series, for glibc 2.20 (release due July 2014)?
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
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