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From: Gerrit Kuehn <gerrit.kuehn@aei.mpg.de>
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On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 16:52:49 +0000
Raffaele BELARDI <raffaele.belardi@st.com> wrote:

> I might need to build and run an old 3.x kernel on a Desktop PC for
> some very specific tests. Would Gentoo be a good solution? I see that
> currently gentoo-sources only includes 4.x and 5.x sources.

There is still 3.x in the vanilla-sources. I've been using (manually
backported) 3.2 vanilla kernels with recent Gentoo at least up to
somewhen 2018.


HTH
cu
  Gerrit