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Re: Regarding minimum linux kernel version on mips
- From: Florian Weimer <fw at deneb dot enyo dot de>
- To: Nori Vasudeva Pavan Kumar <vasudevapavankumar at gmail dot com>
- Cc: libc-help at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2019 16:02:59 +0100
- Subject: Re: Regarding minimum linux kernel version on mips
- References: <CAOKitUgNcGd_t+2caP6jLtpeUsGp1_E5AsfujkWSQs6N=3rPDw@mail.gmail.com>
* Nori Vasudeva Pavan Kumar:
> From Glibc2.24 onward the minimum linux kernel version to be used
> with, is 3.2 on mips architecture.
>
> May I know the reason for such dependency?
It was a generic change, not MIPS-specific.
>From time to time, the glibc project eliminates support for older
kernels, to simplify the code base.