Re: [Nix-dev] end-of-life kernels

2012-12-26 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 12:42:37PM +0100, Mathijs Kwik wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Eelco Dolstra eelco.dols...@logicblox.com wrote: Hi, On 19/11/12 15:28, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: But I imagine Eelco wants glibc to be built for 3.5 kernels or above. Stdenv has

Re: [Nix-dev] end-of-life kernels

2012-11-19 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 08:18:52AM +0100, Mathijs Kwik wrote: Sure, no hurries. Let's say we wait a month or so, 3.7 will be out too. I will then ask again about 3.5 So do we all agree on the other ones being obsolete? As for me, for all I remember, yes. PS: I feel a bit awkward for

Re: [Nix-dev] end-of-life kernels

2012-11-19 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Hi, On 18/11/12 20:58, Mathijs Kwik wrote: Indeed I didn't think about 2.6.35 being our current headers, so indeed we should keep 2.6.35 until stdenv-upgrades. FWIW, the stdenv branch already uses Linux 3.5.x for the kernel headers. -- Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. |

Re: [Nix-dev] end-of-life kernels

2012-11-19 Thread Marco Maggesi
For the record, I still use 2.6.35 which is the newest kernel supporting BLCR presently available in NixoOS (BLCR needs kernels = 2.6.38). By the way, for what I can say, this makes NixOS the only distribution which currently supports easily BLCR (just add two lines in configuration.nix). Seems

Re: [Nix-dev] end-of-life kernels

2012-11-19 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Marco Maggesi magg...@math.unifi.it writes: For the record, I still use 2.6.35 which is the newest kernel supporting BLCR presently available in NixoOS (BLCR needs kernels = 2.6.38). By the way, for what I can say, this makes NixOS the only distribution which currently supports easily BLCR

Re: [Nix-dev] end-of-life kernels

2012-11-19 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 02:26:00PM +0100, Mathijs Kwik wrote: Marco Maggesi magg...@math.unifi.it writes: For the record, I still use 2.6.35 which is the newest kernel supporting BLCR presently available in NixoOS (BLCR needs kernels = 2.6.38). By the way, for what I can say, this makes

Re: [Nix-dev] end-of-life kernels

2012-11-19 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Lluís Batlle i Rossell vi...@viric.name writes: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 02:26:00PM +0100, Mathijs Kwik wrote: Marco Maggesi magg...@math.unifi.it writes: For the record, I still use 2.6.35 which is the newest kernel supporting BLCR presently available in NixoOS (BLCR needs kernels =

Re: [Nix-dev] end-of-life kernels

2012-11-19 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Hi, On 19/11/12 14:39, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: As for glibc, the glibc has to be told the minimum kernel version to build for. It will use not all syscalls available in the headers, but only those which match the 'configure' argument requirement. But I imagine Eelco wants glibc to

Re: [Nix-dev] end-of-life kernels

2012-11-19 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 03:25:08PM +0100, Eelco Dolstra wrote: Hi, On 19/11/12 14:39, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: As for glibc, the glibc has to be told the minimum kernel version to build for. It will use not all syscalls available in the headers, but only those which match the

Re: [Nix-dev] end-of-life kernels

2012-11-19 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Hi, On 19/11/12 15:28, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: But I imagine Eelco wants glibc to be built for 3.5 kernels or above. Stdenv has --enable-kernel=2.6.35. Do you favour a higher value? Is there a good reason for a higher value? Certainly it can't be higher than 3.2 since that's our

Re: [Nix-dev] end-of-life kernels

2012-11-19 Thread Mathijs Kwik
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Eelco Dolstra eelco.dols...@logicblox.com wrote: Hi, On 19/11/12 15:28, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: But I imagine Eelco wants glibc to be built for 3.5 kernels or above. Stdenv has --enable-kernel=2.6.35. Do you favour a higher value? Is there a good

Re: [Nix-dev] end-of-life kernels

2012-11-19 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 03:37:45PM +0100, Eelco Dolstra wrote: Hi, On 19/11/12 15:28, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: But I imagine Eelco wants glibc to be built for 3.5 kernels or above. Stdenv has --enable-kernel=2.6.35. Do you favour a higher value? Is there a good reason for

Re: [Nix-dev] end-of-life kernels

2012-11-18 Thread Peter Simons
Hi Mathijs, Is anyone still using linux 2.6.15 or 2.6.35 or 3.1 or 3.3 or 3.5 ? I'm still using 3.5. I cannot upgrade to 3.6 yet, because my wireless interface (iwlwifi: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 AGN) won't work with the new kernel for some reason. Take care, Peter

Re: [Nix-dev] end-of-life kernels

2012-11-18 Thread Rok Garbas
Quoting Peter Simons (2012-11-18 14:30:18) Hi Mathijs, Is anyone still using linux 2.6.15 or 2.6.35 or 3.1 or 3.3 or 3.5 ? I'm still using 3.5. I cannot upgrade to 3.6 yet, because my wireless interface (iwlwifi: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 AGN) won't work with the new kernel for

Re: [Nix-dev] end-of-life kernels

2012-11-18 Thread Michael Raskin
Hi Mathijs, Is anyone still using linux 2.6.15 or 2.6.35 or 3.1 or 3.3 or 3.5 ? I'm still using 3.5. I cannot upgrade to 3.6 yet, because my wireless interface (iwlwifi: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 AGN) won't work with the new kernel for some reason. iwconfig stopped working as Wireless

Re: [Nix-dev] end-of-life kernels

2012-11-18 Thread Mathijs Kwik
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Michael Raskin 7c6f4...@mail.ru wrote: Hi Mathijs, Is anyone still using linux 2.6.15 or 2.6.35 or 3.1 or 3.3 or 3.5 ? I'm still using 3.5. I cannot upgrade to 3.6 yet, because my wireless interface (iwlwifi: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 AGN) won't work with

Re: [Nix-dev] end-of-life kernels

2012-11-18 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:17:57AM +0100, Mathijs Kwik wrote: Is anyone still using linux 2.6.15 or 2.6.35 or 3.1 or 3.3 or 3.5 ? If not, we should probably take them out, as they won't be receiving updates any more. We still use the kernel headers from 2.6.35. As for 2.6.15 or anything .35

Re: [Nix-dev] end-of-life kernels

2012-11-18 Thread Mathijs Kwik
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell vi...@viric.name wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:17:57AM +0100, Mathijs Kwik wrote: Is anyone still using linux 2.6.15 or 2.6.35 or 3.1 or 3.3 or 3.5 ? If not, we should probably take them out, as they won't be receiving updates any

Re: [Nix-dev] end-of-life kernels

2012-11-18 Thread Rok Garbas
Quoting Mathijs Kwik (2012-11-18 18:39:59) On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Michael Raskin 7c6f4...@mail.ru wrote: Hi Mathijs, Is anyone still using linux 2.6.15 or 2.6.35 or 3.1 or 3.3 or 3.5 ? I'm still using 3.5. I cannot upgrade to 3.6 yet, because my wireless interface (iwlwifi:

Re: [Nix-dev] end-of-life kernels

2012-11-18 Thread Peter Simons
Mathijs Kwik writes: Ok, so this means that setting networking.wireless.driver to nl80211 would do the trick. Indeed, that solved the issue for me. Thanks for your help, guys! As far as I am concerned, I'm fine with 3.5.x being removed. Take care, Peter

Re: [Nix-dev] end-of-life kernels

2012-11-18 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:39:55PM +0100, Peter Simons wrote: Mathijs Kwik writes: Ok, so this means that setting networking.wireless.driver to nl80211 would do the trick. Indeed, that solved the issue for me. Thanks for your help, guys! As far as I am concerned, I'm fine with 3.5.x

Re: [Nix-dev] end-of-life kernels

2012-11-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, I think initially some of the old kernels were re-added by a colleague of mine to allow continuous integration testing of a kernel module against a variety of Linux versions. It’s no longer used, but that kind of use may still make sense. Thanks, Ludo’.

Re: [Nix-dev] end-of-life kernels

2012-11-18 Thread Mathijs Kwik
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 1:01 AM, Ludovic Courtès l...@gnu.org wrote: Hi, I think initially some of the old kernels were re-added by a colleague of mine to allow continuous integration testing of a kernel module against a variety of Linux versions. It’s no longer used, but that kind of use

Re: [Nix-dev] end-of-life kernels

2012-11-18 Thread Mathijs Kwik
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:44 PM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell vi...@viric.name wrote: On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:39:55PM +0100, Peter Simons wrote: Mathijs Kwik writes: Ok, so this means that setting networking.wireless.driver to nl80211 would do the trick. Indeed, that solved the issue for