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Re: updating COMPAT_LINUX for linux 2.6.x support.
On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 07:18:27PM +1000, matthew green wrote:
>
> (2) what linux kernel version do we want to claim to be in uname?
> it would be good for this to be at least as recent as the
> kernel matching what we choose in (1). but it would good to avoid
> going too wild with this, to keep the amount of new emul code
> that's needed to a minimum.
>
> i'd recommend 2.6.18 (or 2.6.9) as an initial baseline since those are
> commonly used for building (at least commercial) linux software.
from looking at the mapping of syscalls to versions,
2.6.18 seems like a reasonable choice, I'll go with that.
-Chuck
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