[PATCH] powerpc: Set minimum kernel version for powerpc64le

Rajalakshmi Srinivasaraghavan raji@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Jan 13 16:54:00 GMT 2017



On 01/13/2017 02:25 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 01/13/2017 06:45 AM, Rajalakshmi Srinivasaraghavan wrote:
>> This patch sets the minimum kernel version required for ppc64le as
>> 3.10.0.
>
> Please document somewhere why this kernel version was chosen (and not
> 3.12 or later, as Joseph suggested).  I can guess the reason, but it
> would be nice to make this explicit.

Linux 3.13 was the first upstream version to support powerpc64le, but
3.10 is the oldest kernel version known to still be supported on
powerpc64le.
Added that in bugzilla comment as well.

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Thanks
Rajalakshmi S



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