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doc: update portability section for this release 

Signed-off-by: Alessandro Rubini's avatarAlessandro Rubini <rubini@gnudd.com>
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...@@ -1690,13 +1690,19 @@ This package should be portable. However I didn't test it on a wide ...@@ -1690,13 +1690,19 @@ This package should be portable. However I didn't test it on a wide
variety of system. I used it on a 32-bit x86 host, running version variety of system. I used it on a 32-bit x86 host, running version
3.4 of the kernel. 3.4 of the kernel.
I verified that it compiles without any warning from version 2.6.35 up The package is upstream since version 3.11, and I'm submitting all
to 3.9, on a 32-bit x86 processor. On previous versions it fails for local changes to the kernel as development continues. As of this
various reasons, but the backport branch we push for every release release a few commits are missing from the official kernel, but any
fixes them. The backport branch builds without warnings or error @i{ohwr} package that relies on @i{fmc-bus} will most likely work with
for 2.6.24 and 2.6.26 up to 2.6.29 (we don't care fixing it for 2.6.25). the official kernel subsystem as well.
I don't test kernels older than 2.6.24 as that one is the olderst release
we are using in production at the time being. I verified that this package builds without any warning from version 2.6.35 up
to 3.13, on a 32-bit x86 processor. On 2.6.34 and earlier it fails for
various reasons.
Up to May 2013 each release included a backport branch that worked
back to kernel 2.6.24, which we had in production at the time. If you
run a kernel older than 2.6.35, please consider
@bye @bye
@c LocalWords: gnudd titlepage iftex texinfo CERN documentlanguage settitle @c LocalWords: gnudd titlepage iftex texinfo CERN documentlanguage settitle
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