[arch-dev-public] glibc and minimum kernel version

[Dan McGee]

On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Now glibc-2.10 is out, I will be preparing another toolchain rebuild.  One
> question that has been discussed previously is bumping the minimum kernel
> required by glibc.  Bumping it too recent is full of stupid, but bumping it
> some would cut down on some unnecessary glibc workaround code.
>
> I am thinking that the minimal kernel version should be 2.6.22 which was
> released two years ago. It is the lowest kernel version that udev works with
> so people using kernels older than that need to do some workarounds anyway.
>
> Any comments/objections?

+1 from me, thanks for looking at this.

-Dan