doc: updated list of supported versions

Signed-off-by: Alessandro Rubini <rubini@gnudd.com> Conflicts: doc/fmc-bus.in

doc: updated list of supported versions
Signed-off-by: Alessandro Rubini <rubini@gnudd.com> Conflicts: doc/fmc-bus.in
af52f48a · Alessandro Rubini · 76591a09 · af52f48a
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-@set update-month April 2013
+@set update-month May 2013

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 @chapter Portability

 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 2.6.32
-and 3.8 of the kernel.
+variety of system.  I used it on a 32-bit x86 host, running version
+3.4 of the kernel.

 I verified that it compiles without any warning from version 2.6.35 up
-to 3.5, on a 32-bit x86 processor. From 2.6.27 to 2.6.34 the only warning
-is about the @t{eeprom} read-only file in @i{sysfs}. Please don't access
-that file when running 2.6.34 or earlier.
-
-On 2.6.26 it fails for changes in
-the Linux device structures. On 2.6.25 and earlier it fails much more
-badly. We still support 2.6.24 with a separate @i{backport} branch.
+to 3.9, on a 32-bit x86 processor. On previous versions it fails for
+various reasons, but the backport branch we push for every release
+fixes them. The backport branch builds without warnings or error
+for 2.6.24 and 2.6.26 up to 2.6.29 (we don't care fixing it for 2.6.25).
+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.

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