[oe] [oe-commits] Roman I Khimov : (e) glibc-package: fix kernel version passed to qemu

[Phil Blundell]

On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 09:10 +1000, Peter Chubb wrote:
> >>>>> "Phil" == Phil Blundell <philb at gnu.org> writes:
> 
> Phil> On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 23:54 +0400, Roman I Khimov wrote:
> 
> Phil> What is your objection to just selecting the highest kernel
> Phil> version that qemu supports for the target architecture?  That
> Phil> seems like an easy fix and one that makes this whole problem go
> Phil> away without requiring either any extra variables or any
> Phil> semantic changes to existing variables.
> 
> 
> That doesn't make sense for our case.  We're using openembedded to
> generate a rootfs for an embedded virtual environment whose Linux
> kernel is currently at 2.6.10.  Glibcs built for later kernels will
> not run on this (because of the changes for handling
> thread-local-storage introduced in the 2.6.11--2.6.12 timeframe)

I think you misunderstood what I was proposing.  Glibc would continue to
be configured just as it is now: the only difference would be that
_qemu_ would be set to emulate the newest kernel version that it
supports, rather than a fixed version as previously.

p.