[oe] [PATCH 1/2] glibc-package: fix kernel version passed to qemu

[Phil Blundell]

On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 21:46 +0400, Roman I Khimov wrote:
> On Friday 15 May 2009 19:26:26 Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 04:34:08PM +0400, Roman I Khimov wrote:
> > > Binary locale generation fails with
> > >
> > > FATAL: kernel too old
> > >
> > > if glibc is configured for kernels newer then 2.6.16.
> > >
> > > Fix qemu "-r" parameter to match OLDEST_KERNEL.
> >
> > Just to be sure, this is happy with 2.4.0 too, right?
> 
> Hmmm. It's untested on 2.4, obviously. But OLDEST_KERNEL is the kernel glibc 
> built against, so whatever it is, it should be a perfect match.

Do you know what the reason is for passing this -r parameter in the
first place?  It seems like we should just be letting qemu use the most
recent kernel emulation that it knows about, since a glibc compiled
against any given kernel version should always run with newer versions.

p.