[oe] (e)glibc.inc: add minimal sane kernel versions

Tom Rini trini at embeddedalley.com
Sun May 31 04:41:01 UTC 2009


On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 09:46:39PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Phil Blundell <philb at gnu.org> wrote:
> > OLDEST_KERNEL is, at least partially, distro dependent: this was its
> > original purpose, and it would be a shame to lose the ability to
> > override it from DISTRO.conf.  But, moving the default definition from
> > bitbake.conf to (e)glibc.inc would be fine if it's also changed to a
> > weak assignment (?=) at the same time.

I thought it was weak already..

> Mind to explain an use case where we'd need  to override it?

If *libc can drop all compat for older stuff (ie MIPS would get the
2.4.0 min, but I only care about 2.6) and I know I don't care about 2.4,
I want that space back.

-- 
Tom Rini




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