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This patch increases the minimum Linux kernel version for glibc to 2.6.32, as discussed in the thread starting at <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-01/msg00511.html>. This patch just does the minimal change to arch_minimum_kernel settings (and LIBC_LINUX_VERSION, which determines the minimum kernel headers version, as it doesn't make sense for that to be older than the minimum kernel that can be used at runtime). Followups would be expected to do, roughly and not necessarily precisely in this order: * Remove __LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION checks in kernel-features.h files where those checks are always true / always false for kernels 2.6.32 and above. * Otherwise simplify/improve conditionals in those files (for example, where defining once in the main file then undefining in architecture-specific files makes things clearer than having lots of separate definitions of the same macro), possibly fixing in the process cases where a macro should optimally have been defined for a given architecture but wasn't. (In the review in preparation for this version increase I checked what the right conditions should be for all macros in the main kernel-features.h whose definitions there would have been affected by the increase - but I only fixed that subset of the issues found where --enable-kernel=2.6.32 would have caused a kernel feature to be wrongly assumed to be present, not any cases where a feature is not assumed but could be assumed.) * Remove conditionals on __ASSUME_* where they can now be taken to be always-true, and the definitions when the macros are only used in Linux-specific files. * Split more architectures out of the main kernel-features.h (like ex-ports architectures), once various of the architecture conditionals there have been eliminated so the new architecture-specific files are no larger than actually necessary. Tested x86_64. 2014-03-27 Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> [BZ #9894] * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure.ac (LIBC_LINUX_VERSION): Change to 2.6.32. (arch_minimum_kernel): Change all 2.6.16 settings to 2.6.32. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure: Regenerated. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/microblaze/configure.ac: Remove file. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/microblaze/configure: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/tile/configure.ac: Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/tile/configure: Likewise. * README: Update reference to required Linux kernel version. * manual/install.texi (Linux): Update reference to required Linux kernel headers version. * INSTALL: Regenerated.
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This directory contains the sources of the GNU C Library.
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See the file "version.h" for what release version you have.
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The GNU C Library is the standard system C library for all GNU systems,
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and is an important part of what makes up a GNU system. It provides the
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system API for all programs written in C and C-compatible languages such
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as C++ and Objective C; the runtime facilities of other programming
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languages use the C library to access the underlying operating system.
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In GNU/Linux systems, the C library works with the Linux kernel to
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implement the operating system behavior seen by user applications.
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In GNU/Hurd systems, it works with a microkernel and Hurd servers.
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The GNU C Library implements much of the POSIX.1 functionality in the
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GNU/Hurd system, using configurations i[4567]86-*-gnu. The current
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GNU/Hurd support requires out-of-tree patches that will eventually be
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incorporated into an official GNU C Library release.
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When working with Linux kernels, this version of the GNU C Library
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requires Linux kernel version 2.6.32 or later.
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Also note that the shared version of the libgcc_s library must be
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installed for the pthread library to work correctly.
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The GNU C Library supports these configurations for using Linux kernels:
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aarch64*-*-linux-gnu
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alpha*-*-linux-gnu
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arm-*-linux-gnueabi
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hppa-*-linux-gnu Not currently functional without patches.
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i[4567]86-*-linux-gnu
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x86_64-*-linux-gnu Can build either x86_64 or x32
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ia64-*-linux-gnu
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m68k-*-linux-gnu
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microblaze*-*-linux-gnu
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mips-*-linux-gnu
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mips64-*-linux-gnu
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powerpc-*-linux-gnu Hardware or software floating point, BE only.
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powerpc64*-*-linux-gnu Big-endian and little-endian.
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s390-*-linux-gnu
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s390x-*-linux-gnu
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sh[34]-*-linux-gnu
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sparc*-*-linux-gnu
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sparc64*-*-linux-gnu
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tilegx-*-linux-gnu
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tilepro-*-linux-gnu
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The code for other CPU configurations supported by volunteers outside of
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the core glibc maintenance effort is contained in the `ports' add-on,
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located in the `ports' subdirectory of the source tree.
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If you are interested in doing a port, please contact the glibc
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maintainers; see http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/ for more
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information.
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See the file INSTALL to find out how to configure, build, and install
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the GNU C Library. You might also consider reading the WWW pages for
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the C library at http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/.
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The GNU C Library is (almost) completely documented by the Texinfo manual
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found in the `manual/' subdirectory. The manual is still being updated
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and contains some known errors and omissions; we regret that we do not
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have the resources to work on the manual as much as we would like. For
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corrections to the manual, please file a bug in the `manual' component,
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following the bug-reporting instructions below. Please be sure to check
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the manual in the current development sources to see if your problem has
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already been corrected.
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Please see http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/bugs.html for bug reporting
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information. We are now using the Bugzilla system to track all bug reports.
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This web page gives detailed information on how to report bugs properly.
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The GNU C Library is free software. See the file COPYING.LIB for copying
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conditions, and LICENSES for notices about a few contributions that require
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these additional notices to be distributed. License copyright years may be
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listed using range notation, e.g., 2000-2013, indicating that every year in
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the range, inclusive, is a copyrightable year that would otherwise be listed
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individually.
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