minGasLimit should be read from https://github.com/ethereum/common/blob/master/params.json and ~~verified in the new gas limit validation at https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/blob/develop/core/block_processor.go#L263~~ Otherwise there if gas limit becomes less than 1024 it can never be changed again due to the new validation rules.