Bug#722246: libc6: Please consider lowering minimal linux kernel version
On 09/09/13 13:25, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
> At configure time though, the minimal
> kernel version is set at 2.6.32.
Probably glibc is dependent on functionality (syscalls and kernel
interfaces) only available in the newer kernels. I doubt it's possible
to lower that requirement, without substantial rewrite, or by losing
some functionality that userland software now depends on.
> Alternatively, would you consider having a separate binary glibc package on
> i386/amd64 with minimal version set back to 2.6.16?
Maybe some other libc could more easily do this, perhaps dietlibc? That
would still require recompilation of binaries though I think? Then it
makes more sense to just rebuild for kfreebsd natively.
Or otherwise hope that FreeBSD linuxulator can add support newer
syscalls of 2.6.32 and later.
Regards,
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Steven Chamberlain
steven@pyro.eu.org
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