Bug#722246: marked as done (libc6: Please consider lowering minimal linux kernel version)
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regarding libc6: Please consider lowering minimal linux kernel version
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Package: libc6
Version: 2.17-92
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
kfreebsd-i386 & kfreebsd-amd64 have linux emulatrion layer that can
emulate 2.6.16 linux API level. Which is also the minimum kernel version
that glibc2.17 & 2.18 require. At configure time though, the minimal
kernel version is set at 2.6.32.
Would you mind lowering it back to 2.6.16?
The benefits it will bring, is executing i386/amd64 binaries without
need to recompile glibc, by simply enabling i386/amd64 repositories and
installing foreign arch packages.
I don't know what performance/size/etc penalties are with lowering
minimal kernel version.
Alternatively, would you consider having a separate binary glibc package on
i386/amd64 with minimal version set back to 2.6.16?
Regards,
Dmitrijs.
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--- Begin Message ---
On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 01:25:27PM +0100, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
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> Would you mind lowering it back to 2.6.16?
Absolutely not. Lowering it to 2.6.16 avoids lots of new and useful
syscalls and would slow down glibc on native Linux just for the sake
of running foreign binaries on FreeBSD. Not a win at all.
> Alternatively, would you consider having a separate binary glibc package on
> i386/amd64 with minimal version set back to 2.6.16?
Adding another bi/tri/quad arch sort of package for Linux emulation
on FreeBSD also doesn't seem worth the effort. If you wanted Linux
on your amd64 machine, why not install Linux?
... Adam
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