On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 03:38:38PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Oct 2022 at 15:30, Laurent Vivier <laur...@vivier.eu> wrote:
> >
> > Le 04/10/2022 à 11:32, Daniel P. Berrangé a écrit :
> > > Various areas of QEMU have a dependency on Linux kernel header
> > > definitions. This falls under the scope of our supported platforms
> > > matrix, but historically we've not checked for a minimum kernel
> > > headers version. This has made it unclear when we can drop support
> > > for older kernel headers.
> > >
> > >    * Alpine 3.14: 5.10
> > >    * CentOS 8: 4.18
> > >    * CentOS 9: 5.14
> > >    * Debian 10: 4.19
> > >    * Debian 11: 5.10
> > >    * Fedora 35: 5.19
> > >    * Fedora 36: 5.19
> > >    * OpenSUSE 15.3: 5.3.0
> > >    * Ubuntu 20.04: 5.4
> > >    * Ubuntu 22.04: 5.15
> > >
> > > The above ignores the 3rd version digit since distros update their
> > > packages periodically and such updates don't generally affect public
> > > APIs to the extent that it matters for our build time check.
> > >
> > > Overall, we can set the baseline to 4.18 currently.
> >
> > As this change affects entire QEMU build, I'd prefer to have some 
> > "Acked-by" before merging it via
> > linux-user branch.
> 
> I still think we should be more conservative about kernel header
> requirements than we are for other dependencies.

How much more though ?  What other distros do we want to target that
we don't already cover with our targetted platforms  ?


With regards,
Daniel
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