Ok. Thanks. I’ll play around with it a bit more. If it doesn't work out, there’s always C code!
On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 2:03 AM Ian Lance Taylor <i...@golang.org> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 6:50 PM Anthony Adams > <anthony.adams....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Thanks again. That’s very helpful. It sounds like ARMv5 is still > supported. Now I just need to confirm the minimum kernel version. The > system I’m using has a 2.6.39.4 kernel, which I’m unable to upgrade. This > document says the minimum kernel version for ARM is v3.1, but I assume this > is for the latest version of Golang: > > > > https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/MinimumRequirements > > I'm not sure but I suspect that unfortunately that kernel requirement > is true for essentially all versions of Go. The problem is that for > ARMv5 we rely on kernel support for 64-bit locking primitives. > > Ian > > > On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 9:04 PM Ian Lance Taylor <i...@golang.org> > wrote: > >> > >> On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 1:32 PM <anthony.adams....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > > >> > Thanks for the reply, Ian. I’ve seen the page you referenced, but the > 1.8 release notes say that it will be the last version to support ARMv5. > I’ve also come across some posts that mention certain minimum Linux kernel > requirements, but nothing that lists them by Golang version. > >> > >> I *think* that we decided to keep support for ARMv5, despite the > >> comment in the 1.8 release notes. See > >> https://github.com/golang/go/issues/17082#issuecomment-289575075. > >> > >> Ian > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CACFpq0w74fPw8OSSwW%2BSxfXnUjTOExX%3Du223idS30%3Dyhox6cJA%40mail.gmail.com.
