[yocto] Kernel too old?

[Jussi Kukkonen]

On 16 November 2016 at 13:29, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to run some user code on a [closed] box that it's
> difficult (maybe impossible) to update the kernel.  To date,
> I've been able to create my own user environment using Yocto
> and then just 'chroot XXX'.  That came to an end today with
> the latest (version 2.2) like this:
>
>   DiskStation> chroot /volume1/MY.test/
>   FATAL: kernel too old
>   DiskStation> cat /proc/version
>   Linux version 2.6.32.12 (root at build5) (gcc version 4.3.2 (GCC) ) #3202
> SMP Fri Mar 1 01:04:06 CST 2013
>
> Where '/volume1/MY.test' is my Yocto-built root file system.
>
> Is there any way around this if I can't update the running kernel?


Modern glibc needs linux 3.2, see
http://repo.or.cz/glibc.git/commit/5b4ecd3f95695ef593e4474b4ab5a117291ba5fc
(apparently on x86* you could still get away with setting OLDEST_KERNEL to
2.6.32).

Cheers,
  Jussi


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