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[v2,05/11] bitbake.conf: set minimum required target kernel to 5.15

Message ID 20230428084352.836515-5-alex@linutronix.de
State Accepted, archived
Commit feb8e3fb71131a414a2a9271832b4e16860301ea
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Series [v2,01/11] binutils: backport a patch to address failures when time64.inc is in use | expand

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Alexander Kanavin April 28, 2023, 8:43 a.m. UTC 
In particular this enables a number of useful features in glibc
(which utilize newer kernel APIs), such as actually using 64 bit
time_t versions of kernel syscalls:

https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/kernel-features.h;h=07b440f4eea364b05fa49bf71ceebf78f80efe13;hb=HEAD#l164

In general, OLDEST_KERNEL setting is used in these two places:

- kernel.bbclass compares it with the target kernel version being built.
If a vendor BSP still offers an older kernel, OLDEST_KERNEL should be set to match.

- glibc recipe passes it as a parameter to the build so that additional features
and optimized paths that kernels older than OLDEST_KERNEL are enabled.

Note that there is a related setting, SDK_OLDEST_KERNEL, which remains as
it was (at 3.2.0) to ensure maximum compatibility with kernels on SDK host
machines; that setting is used to build nativesdk-glibc and verify the kernel
version when the SDK is being installed.

Build host kernel versions are not checked directly; compatible distros
are listed instead.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Kanavin <alex@linutronix.de>

---
v2: rewrite the description to address the concerns about build host kernels
and sdk host kernels
---
 meta/conf/bitbake.conf | 7 +------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
index afd9e2f5527..2db84a46eed 100644
--- a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
+++ b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
@@ -469,12 +469,7 @@  SDKPATHINSTALL = "/usr/local/${SDK_NAME_PREFIX}-${SDK_ARCH}"
 # Kernel info.
 ##################################################################
 
-OLDEST_KERNEL = "3.2.0"
-OLDEST_KERNEL:aarch64 = "3.14"
-OLDEST_KERNEL:nios2 = "3.19"
-OLDEST_KERNEL:powerpc64le = "3.10.0"
-OLDEST_KERNEL:riscv32 = "5.4"
-OLDEST_KERNEL:riscv64 = "4.15"
+OLDEST_KERNEL = "5.15"
 
 # SDK_OLDEST_KERNEL can't be set using overrides since there are
 # none for the SDK architecture. Best to set it from a machine-sdk