[OE-core] [PATCH 1/2] bitbake.conf: update OLDEST_KERNEL to 2.6.0
Richard Purdie
richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org
Fri Jul 8 16:28:13 UTC 2011
On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 07:17 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Paul Eggleton
> <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com> 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.
>
> Its similar to a situation where some of the layers might be using
> gcc older than 4.6.0 but we still chose 4.6.0
> in default distro vars. There always is a possibility to override it
> if user has to.
For now, I've merged the 2.6.16 patch since there seem to be good
reasons for making things at least that recent. Its certainly better
than 2.4! :)
Cheers,
Richard
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