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

Chris Elston celston at katalix.com
Fri Jul 8 08:46:34 UTC 2011


On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 09:38 +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Friday 08 July 2011 06:21:16 Khem Raj wrote:
> > If oe-core never supported older kernel than 2.6.37 then setting it to
> > 2.6.37 would be better IMO
> 
> It's not necessarily just about oe-core - it's about what layers get used on 
> top, and some of those will be using kernels older than 2.6.37.

It's very rare that we get a free hand in the choice of kernel version.
We get stuck with whichever version the silicon vendor chooses to
support, so it would be bad for us if we couldn't use an older kernel in
our layers.

Cheers,

Chris.





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