On 10/25/2010 09:16 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 8:50 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> As such, the only options I can really think about overriding the sed >> expression for x86 or just saying gcc 2.16.90 or later is required... > > gas, not gcc. But yeah, maybe we can do that. How long has this space > breakage been going on? If it's a "we got a report from this one guy" > kind of thing, then just saying "we don't support old gas versions > because they are too broken" is probably the right thing to do. > > No reason to make for maintenance problems and uglier code if we can > just say "get a newer gas" to a few people. It's not like we haven't > done that with gcc and other tools too. > > Linus The problem is that 2.16 isn't all that old; al lot of the "enterprise" distros still ship it or AFAIK even older versions. 2.6.90 which I *think* is the first fixed version dates from April 2005, so is currently 5 years old; maybe that is within reason to kill off. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- 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
