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Re: [PATCH] resolve glibc-2.2.5 build problems for arm-linux
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 09:47:21AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 02:40:06PM +0000, Phil Blundell wrote:
> > On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 13:53, Ben Collins wrote:
> > > > + arm*)
> > > > + arch_minimum_kernel=2.4.0
> > > > + libc_cv_gcc_unwind_find_fde=yes
> > > > + ;;
> > >
> > > Does arm really require such a new kernel? Mine is still running 2.2.x.
> > > I think the default should be more lenient.
> >
> > In theory glibc will run on any arm kernel back to 2.0. In practice it
> > wouldn't surprise me all that much if the 2.0 support has succumbed to
> > bit-rot, but 2.2 is definitely still supposed to be supported.
>
> You'd be surprised really :) I have 2.0.33 running on some StrongARM
> hardware right now, with glibc 2.1.3. Might make my job a lot easier
> later on if we could put it at 2.0.32, maybe?
If you want to put arch_minimum_kernel=2.0.x, you may as well as use 2.0.10
like i386 and sparc. This means the glibc kernel version checking code will
not be used, so you save some cycles. And, the earliest kernel glibc cares
about when assuming something about the kernel is 2.1.50 or so...
Jakub