df-util && required minimum kernel version

Matthias Apitz guru at unixarea.de
Tue Sep 23 06:03:27 CEST 2008


El día Tuesday, September 23, 2008 a las 11:12:05AM +1000, Sarton O'Brien escribió:

> On Monday 22 September 2008 17:14:45 Matthias Apitz wrote:
> > guru at albatros:~> uname -a
> > Linux albatros 2.6.5-7.97-smp #1 SMP Fri Jul 2 14:21:59 UTC 2004 i686 i686
> > i386 GNU/Linux guru at albatros:~> ./dfu-util -V
> > FATAL: kernel too old
> > Segmentation fault
> >
> > i.e. what is the minimum required kernel version for df-util?
> > thx
> 
> I'm not sure, is it a 32bit binary? My system is:

yes, the above 'albatros' runs a normal SLES:

guru at albatros:~> cat /etc/SuSE-release 
SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 (i586)
VERSION = 9

on a 32bit CPU;

> # uname -a
> Linux trunks 2.6.26-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Sep 9 09:56:28 UTC 2008 x86_64 AMD 
> Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
> 
> And I have no issues. I am a bit bleeding edge though. It seems strange that 
> you are running 2.6 and you get that error.
> 
> # file dfu-util
> dfu-util: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), statically 
> linked, for GNU/Linux 2.6.8, not stripped
> # ./dfu-util -V
> dfu-util - (C) 2007 by OpenMoko Inc.
> This program is Free Software and has ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
> 
> dfu-util version 0.1+svn4160

I've played around on various Linux boxes I have with newer kernels, it
seems to run fine on a 2.6.14 kernel; that the dfu-util executable is
linked for GNU/Linux 2.6.8 does not say much about what they require
internally; see:

$ strings dfu-util | fgrep kernel
could not detach kernel driver from interface %d: %s
/proc/sys/kernel/osrelease
FATAL: kernel too old
FATAL: cannot determine kernel version
/proc/sys/kernel/ngroups_max
/proc/sys/kernel/rtsig-max

i.e. they check /proc/sys/kernel/osrelease and for sure compare it
against some value; interestingly this check is not in the recent
sources I've pulled out from SVN (this was my first place to look,
before asking that question to the list);

anyway; I'll put a Knoppix 5.1.1 on an USB key to use this as
alternative boot in my laptop (which runs FreeBSD, would be nice to port
later dfu-util to FreeBSD :-))

thx for your feedback anyway;

	matthias
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