From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp-relay-internal-0.canonical.com (smtp-relay-internal-0.canonical.com [185.125.188.122]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 02A2F3858C52 for ; Wed, 21 Sep 2022 23:07:18 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 sourceware.org 02A2F3858C52 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=canonical.com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=canonical.com Received: from mail-qv1-f69.google.com (mail-qv1-f69.google.com [209.85.219.69]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by smtp-relay-internal-0.canonical.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 14D7D406F4 for ; Wed, 21 Sep 2022 23:07:17 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=canonical.com; s=20210705; t=1663801637; bh=vsibvgOgyD4wRJLnhyYv7pncFJ5A2FfN0hcwZ4Cnk6g=; h=MIME-Version:References:In-Reply-To:From:Date:Message-ID:Subject: To:Cc:Content-Type; b=JvNywcv97mt16icmX3LIYvNER5lY4YwYB4xra5i2pL5/Vr26+22Y+L3AqiCHO4a7J SmmzHK2US9T5YHCX71MrjIzUAHfRNCBgWDxZRY8chI5CR4SEEh1vSqMxiURfHm0xhg hIrthNxdt2VRlr4S6ketvrE+BlRbcS+PnB8EkVGnyUCnvB0DBzB0RksoPL/Gu4qNd0 gtHAS1rjfRwXb9mDQJDemFckxVrDFp76AarsKlMWRwbg2e9DeQuu3aZfDkeMOsilkT BGxU16mUE7/QhzwWTWr6p0neZJWCyYfTFRQruLVatpqWPTU/UfVijfZ5XruF5y+5BY 075ARhEzo+S/Q== Received: by mail-qv1-f69.google.com with SMTP id g4-20020ad45424000000b004a9bb302c85so5334109qvt.22 for ; Wed, 21 Sep 2022 16:07:17 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=cc:to:subject:message-id:date:from:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date; bh=vsibvgOgyD4wRJLnhyYv7pncFJ5A2FfN0hcwZ4Cnk6g=; b=kvJeu23v47KQ3iHPsluflpvB0xZZ6Ya6NV+MjeSOmehcXtb0S56OYtqrKT5KM39fts t9jln7h5f0+YUS/6eNXiTZIG/8AMZmdHcVKoPQ2L1TZluzWBSUf3g/rIZmUW+tCS9WFw eFTUQup/bPrtJn2ZsrjLk4E16PIRgRNC8d+SwrSYAI5Yz6o3rImJy/hHfhD+ltEJ0qfx XYdIxhzrGGaPvBCFCL2DNxMjk64iorxykaHdyKLt087H9pbROD2w3InG14oSS0L8VpIx KQxtrHmYmm6YqXjsbVWgk0SLZ+N600+O9ARfLoV2zQpjM8ZtoMrgOgquhYi4L7oqUg0i GNfA== X-Gm-Message-State: ACrzQf20xFeVTYLqPpOnNMEOb8zfvL+cJspUyQ8P1pRb9iVGaFn1cSdM YZeI4VM0+oM2FRGH7WC6SrP0aAY8NEZb2ezzykMNyDUQHv3VKdlLrH0ZEvbjd1+yHWYn7LOCtG8 UPvjgI3i2OlRDla+gYus8GGFjI8z5e0IPfCAACq/t6qKyX2+vzv7CWQ== X-Received: by 2002:a05:622a:1452:b0:35c:b9ca:a3a3 with SMTP id v18-20020a05622a145200b0035cb9caa3a3mr630325qtx.258.1663801635941; Wed, 21 Sep 2022 16:07:15 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-Smtp-Source: AMsMyM4lIZ+x7K+WsyhZ6JM+nR7M2QWv/yhofrMQUfhWcF9jY3Cf910cf29ItFzZcUTSDLFIaPJa4pMKX/HbQuD9Mfw= X-Received: by 2002:a05:622a:1452:b0:35c:b9ca:a3a3 with SMTP id v18-20020a05622a145200b0035cb9caa3a3mr630306qtx.258.1663801635643; Wed, 21 Sep 2022 16:07:15 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: From: Michael Hudson-Doyle Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2022 11:07:04 +1200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Question: Is there a plan when to require a higher Linux kernel version than 3.2? To: Joseph Myers Cc: Stefan Liebler , GNU C Library Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="000000000000783c6a05e938017b" X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,DKIM_VALID_EF,HTML_MESSAGE,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org List-Id: --000000000000783c6a05e938017b Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On Thu, 22 Sept 2022 at 04:50, Joseph Myers wrote: > * The oldest kernel version supported on > https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html (currently 4.9) being new > enough for the change to allow significant cleanups in glibc. > I don't know how seriously you are suggesting moving the baseline to 4.9 or on what timeframe, but we (Canonical) still have Ubuntu 14.04 (kernel 3.13) in extended support until 2024 and 16.04 (kernel 4.4) until 2026 and we would like these users to be able to use newer distributions in containers (I don't know RHEL's policies, but by my reading RHEL7, based on kernel 3.10, is in a similar kind of extended support until 2026). So I don't want to hold up progress to a new and better world too much... but also there is a reason to move slowly here. Cheers, mwh --000000000000783c6a05e938017b--