[PATCH v2] Require at least Linux 2.6.33 on alpha

[Florian Weimer]

On 11/03/2015 06:28 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> INSTALL is a generated file; you need to modify install.texi and 
> regenerate INSTALL.

Oops. thanks.  What about the attached version?

I don't have access to alpha machines anymore.  Debian decommissioned
them some time ago.

> Does anyone have any more detailed information about when 2.6.32 will 
> cease to be maintained (<https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html> 
> still says "Mid-2015")?  Because at that point we should just move to 3.2 
> as minimum kernel version globally, avoiding such architecture-specific 
> special cases.

I want to fix real bugs involving missing O_CLOEXEC, so I'd prefer to
make the alpha change now.

Florian

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