[OE-core] [PATCH 1/2] bitbake.conf: update OLDEST_KERNEL to 2.6.0

[Paul Eggleton]

On Thursday 07 July 2011 15:24:46 Koen Kooi wrote:
> angstrom has been setting it to 2.6.16 for some years now, I forget which
> bug that fixed over 2.6.0

Personally I don't know enough about which crusty old 2.6 kernels people are 
still using out there, so I figured 2.6.0 was the safest bet.

A trawl of the OE history turns up these two:

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commit 8b0202e6e3f90a772df301e8522f9deb03e50132
Author: Tom Rini <tom_rini at mentor.com>
Date:   Wed Mar 3 12:17:38 2010 -0700

    glibc*.inc: Bump OLDEST_KERNEL to 2.6.16
    
    Per glibc's ChangeLog, 2.6.16 is the minimum required by at least glibc
    2.9 
    Prior to this, it was a murky 2.6.14 + patches to 2.6.16 (when it was all
    upstream).
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commit 794e8652f5c4fef71a8b9ab834b39f75b99f9420
Author: Koen Kooi <koen at openembedded.org>
Date:   Thu May 21 20:30:37 2009 +0200

    Angstrom 2009.X: set OLDEST_KERNEL to 2.6.16 to avoid problems with 
ppoll()
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Any further comments/info? Should we be using 2.6.16 in oe-core as well?

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre