Changeset c7dfdfb9

Timestamp:

04/20/2006 10:01:36 PM (17 years ago)

Author:

Manuel Canales Esparcia <manuel@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.0-rc1, 10.1, 10.1-rc1, 11.0, 11.0-rc1, 11.0-rc2, 11.0-rc3, 11.1, 11.1-rc1, 11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.5-systemd, 7.6, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.7-systemd, 7.8, 7.8-systemd, 7.9, 7.9-systemd, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, ml-11.0, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/parallelism, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008

Children:

4fa0347

Parents:

f347b78

Message:

Reworded why a 2.6 kernel compiled with GCC-3 is required on the host system.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@7547 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

Files:

• chapter01/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• prologue/hostreqs.xml (modified) (6 diffs)

chapter01/changelog.xml

@@ -40 +40 @@
       <para>April 20, 2006</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[manuel] - Reworded why a 2.6 kernel compiled with GCC-3
+          is required on the host system.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[manuel] - Revised dependencies info. Thanks to Chris Staub

prologue/hostreqs.xml

@@ -23 +23 @@
     </listitem>
     <listitem>
-      <para>Binutils-2.12 (Versions greater than &binutils-version; not recommended.)</para>
+      <para>Binutils-2.12 (Versions greater than &binutils-version; not
+      recommended)</para>
     </listitem>
     <listitem>
@@ -29 +30 @@
     </listitem>
     <listitem>
-      <para>Coreutils-5.0 (or Sh-Utils-2.0, Textutils-2.0
+      <para>Coreutils-5.0 (or Sh-Utils-2.0, Textutils-2.0,
       and Fileutils-4.1)</para>
     </listitem>
@@ -42 +43 @@
     </listitem>
     <listitem>
-      <para>Gcc-2.95.3 (Versions greater than &gcc-version; not recommended.)</para>
+      <para>Gcc-2.95.3 (Versions greater than &gcc-version; not
+      recommended)</para>
     </listitem>
     <listitem>
-      <para>Glibc-2.2.5 (Versions greater than &glibc-version; not recommended.)</para>
+      <para>Glibc-2.2.5 (Versions greater than &glibc-version; not
+      recommended)</para>
     </listitem>
     <listitem>
@@ -54 +57 @@
     </listitem>
     <listitem>
-      <para>Linux Kernel-2.6.2 (having been compiled with Gcc-3.0)</para>
+      <para>Linux Kernel-2.6.x (having been compiled with Gcc-3.0)</para>
     </listitem>
     <listitem>
@@ -71 +74 @@
   </itemizedlist>
 
-  <para>There are two main reasons for the kernel version requirement. First,
-  the Native POSIX Threading Library (NPTL) test suite will segfault if the
-  host's kernel has not been compiled with GCC-3.0 or a later version. Second,
-  the 2.6.2 or later version of the kernel is required for the use of Udev.
-  Udev creates devices dynamically by reading from the <systemitem
-  class="filesystem">sysfs</systemitem> file system. However, support for this
-  filesystem has only recently been implemented in most of the kernel drivers.
-  We must be sure that all critical system devices get created properly.</para>
+  <para>The reason for the kernel version requirement is that TLS support in
+  Binutils don't be built and the Native POSIX Threading Library (NPTL)
+  test suite will segfault if the host's kernel isn't a 2.6 kernel and has
+  not been compiled with GCC-3.0 or a later version.</para>
 
   <para>In order to determine whether the host kernel meets the requirements
@@ -91 +90 @@
 
   <para>If the results of the above command do not state that the host kernel
-  is either 2.6.2 (or later), or that it was not compiled using a GCC-3.0 (or
+  is either 2.6.x, or that it was not compiled using a GCC-3.0 (or
   later) compiler, one will need to be installed. There are two methods you
-  can take to solve this. First, see if your Linux vendor provides a 2.6.2 (or
-  later) kernel package. If so, you may wish to install it. If your vendor
-  doesn't offer a 2.6.2 (or later) kernel package, or you would prefer not to
+  can take to solve this. First, see if your Linux vendor provides a 2.6
+  kernel package. If so, you may wish to install it. If your vendor
+  doesn't offer a 2.6 kernel package, or you would prefer not to
   install it, then you can compile a 2.6 kernel yourself. Instructions for
   compiling the kernel and configuring the boot loader (assuming the host