Re: [fedora-arm] Fedora in chroot aborts on N900 since F14 [Re: Arm on Qualcomm 7200A]

[Peter Robinson]

On 28 Sep 2011 04:52, "Jan Kratochvil"  wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:12:55 +0200, Chris Tyler wrote:
> > Running a distribution on a phone can be a challenge because drivers for
> > the phone component are generally not available.
>
> f13beta3 was running in chroot OK on N900 with Linux version

2.6.28.10-power48
> but f14 in chroot aborts with "FATAL: kernel too old".
>
> I guess it is just due to glibc --enable-kernel being too high.  Maybe the
> Fedora arm port could use lower --enable-kernel?  But I have not tried to
> rebuild glibc to test it.

No, you just need a kernel >= 2.6.32. Its an ancient kernel used on recent
enterprise distros and android 2.3.x so its not a massive inconvience

Peter