Changeset 65ab9ce for BOOK/temp-system/common

Timestamp:

Aug 30, 2012, 10:18:02 AM (12 years ago)

Author:

William Harrington <kb0iic@…>

Branches:

clfs-2.1, clfs-3.0.0-systemd, clfs-3.0.0-sysvinit, master, systemd, sysvinit

Children:

f34bfa1

Parents:

10d3d46

Message:

Update host system requirements. Book's supported linux kernel version is 2.6.32 or greater.

File:

• BOOK/temp-system/common/choose.xml (modified) (1 diff)

BOOK/temp-system/common/choose.xml

@@ -34 +34 @@
   method.</para>
 
-  <para>To chroot, you will also need a Linux Kernel-2.6.x (having been
-  compiled with GCC-3.0 or greater). The reason for the kernel version
-  requirement is that, without it, thread-local storage support in Binutils
-  will not be built and the Native POSIX Threading Library (NPTL) test suite
-  will segfault.</para>
+  <para>To chroot, you will also need a Linux Kernel-2.6.32 or greater
+  (having been compiled with GCC-4.1.2 or greater). The reason for the
+  kernel version requirement is that eglibc is built to generate the library
+  for the smallest version of the Linux kernel expected to be supported.</para>
 
   <para>To check your kernel version, run <command>cat /proc/version</command>
-  - if it does not say that you are running a 2.6.2 or later Linux kernel,
-  compiled with GCC 3.0 or later, you cannot chroot.</para>
+  - if it does not say that you are running a 2.6.32 or later Linux kernel,
+  compiled with GCC 4.1.2 or later, you cannot chroot.</para>
 
   <para os="e">For the boot method, follow <xref linkend="chapter-boot"/>.</para>