Requiring Linux 3.2 for glibc 2.24

Torvald Riegel triegel@redhat.com
Mon Feb 1 10:42:00 GMT 2016


On Sun, 2016-01-31 at 21:08 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 01/31/2016 07:30 PM, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> 
> > I see no compelling reason to switch to a non-supported version. Also I would have prefer GLIBC to keep supporting the minimum LTS kernel version instead of a specific version.
> 
> It's mostly 2.6.32 on everything except Alpha.  These cleanups won't
> happen over night, especially not the less obvious ones (such as the
> ST_VALID cleanup).  I just wonder if we could support 2.6.32 with little
> more effort for a one or more future releases.

So, IIUC, this wouldn't be a change for anything but Alpha?  Is Alpha
really worth this extra treatment?



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