Hei hei, Am Sun, May 02, 2021 at 11:30:07PM +0100 schrieb Matthew Wilcox: > On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 02:08:31PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > What is relevant is what version of gcc various distributions actually > > have reasonably easily available, and how old and relevant the > > distributions are. We did decide that (just as an example) RHEL 7 was > > too old to worry about when we updated the gcc version requirement > > last time. > > > > Last year, Arnd and Kirill (maybe others were involved too) made a > > list of distros and older gcc versions. But I don't think anybody > > actually _maintains_ such a list. It would be perhaps interesting to > > have some way to check what compiler versions are being offered by > > different distros. > > fwiw, Debian 9 aka Stretch released June 2017 had gcc 6.3 > Debian 10 aka Buster released June 2019 had gcc 7.4 *and* 8.3. > Debian 8 aka Jessie had gcc-4.8.4 and gcc-4.9.2. > > So do we care about people who haven't bothered to upgrade userspace > since 2017? If so, we can't go past 4.9. Desktops and servers are all nice, however I just want to make you aware, there are embedded users forced to stick to older cross toolchains for different reasons as well, e.g. in industrial environment. :-) This is no show stopper for us, I just wanted to let you be aware. Greets Alex
