[arch-general] Arch minimum kernel version (was: [signoff] udev-145-1)

[Dan McGee]

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Dan McGee<dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/8/3 Angel Velásquez <angvp at archlinux.com.ve>:
>>>
>>> I'll shoot an email to Slicehost on my behalf to see what kernels they
>>> have available. What other VPS providers offer Arch? It isn't a tough
>>> thing to find out how much we can get away with here.
>>>
>>> -Dan
>>>
>>
>> I think SevenL networks (who provide services to us) offers Arch...
>>
>> Doing a search on google "archlinux hosting" [1] I found some
>> companies that I didn't notice of their existence in fact.
>
> Got a response from Slice:
> The following kernels are available for your slice to upgrade. Please
> let us know and we can take care of that for you.
> 2.6.24 - 23.48
> 2.6.24 - 24.55
>
> I believe these should be Ubuntu kernel versions; I'm seeing right now
> what they actually include as it might include a fully working
> signalfd().

udev-145 should work fine with a 2.6.24.5 kernel or newer, and latest
kernel above is definitely fixed:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.24.y.git;a=shortlog
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.24.y.git;a=commitdiff;h=c9c5091171cbf780bb293e6406dd8632b678bae8
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/+source/linux/+changelog

> If anyone wants to contact some other providers (especially if you are
> already using their services) and post the response here, that would
> be cool.
>
> -Dan