Requiring Linux 3.2, again

Joseph Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Wed May 3 11:26:00 GMT 2017


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



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