[yocto] Kernel too old?

[Gary Thomas]

On 2016-11-16 12:55, Jussi Kukkonen wrote:
> On 16 November 2016 at 13:29, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com <mailto: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).

Given that my code was running fine as recently as mid-summer with
a version of glibc that was called 2.24-r0, do you think I can get
away with this?  Can I just set that variable in local.conf?

(I know it's only speculation...)

Thanks

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