Bug#339827: linuxthreads crashes when using user stacks
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 10:38:47AM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> At Sun, 20 Nov 2005 14:22:22 -0500,
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > Steve Langasek agreed. I am planning to bump the requirement up from
> > 2.2.whatever to 2.4.0 for i486 and powerpc; i486 in order to enable
> > floating stacks, and powerpc because we've been getting bug reports
> > that indicate that static binaries are already broken there under 2.2,
> > and no one wants to debug it.
> >
> > Any objections before I do this?
>
> Is it already done? If it's pended, I'll ask it to
> debian-devel@lists. The security support for 2.2 series was finished,
> we have no reason to support 2.2 kernel.
No, it isn't :-( I didn't get around to it; if you could, that would
be great.
> Note that the current status of the support kernel versions are:
>
> amd64 2.6.0
> i386(i686) 2.6.0
> i386(amd64) 2.6.0
> *(nptl) 2.6.0
> ppc64 2.6.0
> s390x 2.4.1
> sparc64 2.4.18
> sparcv9 2.4.18
> sparcv9b 2.4.18
>
> others 2.2.0
>
> They'll be changed to:
>
> i386(i486) 2.4.1
> powerpc 2.4.1 (?)
>
> BTW, note that some architectures like m68k could not compile the
> recent glibc with kernel 2.4.x or 2.6.x.
Might want to check with the s390x and sparc porters, too. If 2.4 is
dead for those architectures, we don't need to carry it around. ARM
could probably use a bump, but I'm not sure to what.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC
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