[arch] booting with old kernels

[Dimitrios Apostolou]

Roman Kyrylych wrote:
> 2007/8/22, Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis at gmx.net>:
>> There are 2 issues that certainly affect the age of the kernel you can use:
>>
>> 1) glibc, mostly (only?) because of the linuxthreads to NPTL migration.
>> You can't use glibc>2.3 without an NPTL supporting kernel, which is
>> version 2.6.
>> 2) udev, which needs the new uevent subsystem, introduced in kernel
>> version 2.6.13.
>>
> 
> Also there is a problem with package upgrading:
> http://archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2007-August/009114.html

Very interesting. In a few words the whole system is broken with kernels 
<2.6.13 because it glibc was built with --enable-kernel=2.6.13. I wonder 
what improvements does this option offer. IMHO such options should be 
avoided if they don't clearly offer advantages, they are very hard to 
diagnose.


Thanks,
Dimitris