Bug 159646

Summary: [linux] [patch] bump Linux version in linuxulator to 2.6.32
Product: Base System Reporter: Robert Millan <rmh>
Component: kernAssignee: Dmitry Chagin <dchagin>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me CC: dchagin, xmj
Priority: Normal    
Version: Unspecified   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   
See Also: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=187786
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Description Robert Millan 2011-08-10 16:10:11 UTC 
When compiled for Linux, the Glibc version released with Debian "squeeze" requires Linux 2.6.18 or later. The one currently in yet-to-be-released "wheezy" requires Linux 2.6.26 or later.

If the running kernel identifies itself as older than the required version, all programs refuse to run with "FATAL: kernel too old" message.

Please consider bumping to a more recent version.  Even if not all new features are supported, limited support is much better than not being able to run the binaries at all.

I've succesfully tested this patch with Debian "squeeze" environment.

Fix: Patch attached with submission follows:
Comment 1 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2011-08-10 16:28:17 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-emulation

Over to maintainer(s).
Comment 2 Jan Beich freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2014-11-17 13:40:11 UTC 
linux-c6- infra landing compelled bump to 2.6.18 in base r271982. Likely same will happen with linux-c7- or linux-f20- infra or sooner when lemul branch is merged.

2.6.32 seems to be a common denominator for CentOS 7, Fedora 20 and Debian Sid.
Comment 3 Johannes Jost Meixner freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2014-12-29 14:47:27 UTC 
Indeed, but there's not much of a point of bumping the version to 2.6.32 without actually adding the syscalls that were added in between 2.6.18 and 2.6.32.
Comment 4 Dmitry Chagin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2015-05-24 21:19:33 UTC 
take
Comment 5 Dmitry Chagin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2016-01-09 21:29:27 UTC 
2.6.32 now