Bug#610475: bump minimum kernel version
Package: eglibc-source
Version: 2.11.2-8
As eglibc needs to be updated, it is time to review the minimum
required kernel version for eglibc. Enabling a newer kernel will
allows glibc to have less workarounds compiled in. This comes at the
obvious cost of not having support for older kernels so a tradeoff is
needed...
The minimum version supported by eglibc is defined by the
MIN_KERNEL_SUPPORTED which as value 2.6.18 in debian/sysdeps/linux.mk.
One needs to make a lot of changes in the default installation to run
Debian on such an old kernel.
As udev >= 147 requires a minimum kernel version of 2.6.27 and is not
tested with versions older than 2.6.31 (cf
http://www.spinics.net/lists/hotplug/msg04507.html), I am going to
suggest to follow Fedora 14 which moved from 2.6.18 to 2.6.32.
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