Allow HotSpot to build on Linux 3.0+

Dr Andrew John Hughes ahughes at redhat.com
Thu Jul 28 13:53:22 UTC 2011


On 15:02 Thu 28 Jul     , Mark Wielaard wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 08:32 -0400, Keith McGuigan wrote:
> > This appears to remove support for version 2.7.  Is that intentional?
> 
> There has never been a 2.7 kernel.
> 2.6.39.3 is the last before the 3.0 series.
> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Linux_kernel#Version_numbering
> 

Yes, it was intentional.  As Mark says, it never existed and I guess never will now.
I assume it was added as future proofing, but Linus went and messed that up
by going to 3.0... ;-)
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Andrew :)

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