On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > I need to do some testing with kernels as far back as 2.6.25. I've > currently got a Gentoo box that can build and run kernels ranging from > 3.14.rc2 to 2.6.32. There are various gcc and make issues which have > been successfully dealt with, but now I'm stuck on DEVTMPFS. > > Prior to 2.6.32 DEVTMPFS isn't available, so even though I can build > and boot a 2.6.25 kernel, udev craps out. > > There are plenty of spare paritions to play with, so doing a Linux > install to test with kernels older than 2.6.32 is no problem. > > I'm wondering if instead of downloading an old Ubuntu or Fedora DVD, > is there any way to install an "old" version of Gentoo that will work > with pre-DEVTMPFS kernels? >
Do you actually need udev? If you can get away with just having a static /dev with pre-created device nodes, that would be the simplest solution.
