On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 4:14 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This patchset bumps the minimum supported gcc version to 3.4 for the > general kernel, and to 4.1 for x86. > > We have had a rash of bug reports related to these really old > compilers and their associated binutils version lately, and it is > clear that the support burden of these older compilers is getting to > be excessive. If you really want to build a kernel on a system that > old you can build or obtain an updated gcc/binutils as well. What version of binutils does this correspond to? It would be nice to clean up some of the hacks for ancient binutils as well. -- Brian Gerst -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
