* Theodore Ts'o: > On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 01:37:47PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote: >> > The gcc bugzilla mentions backports into gcc-linaro, but I do not see >> > them in my git history. >> >> So, do we raise the minimum gcc version for the kernel as a whole to 5.1 >> or just for aarch64? > > Russell, Arnd, thanks so much for tracking down the root cause of the > bug! > > I will note that RHEL 7 uses gcc 4.8. I personally don't have an > objections to requiring developers using RHEL 7 to have to install a > more modern gcc (since I use Debian Testing and gcc 10.2.1, myself, > and gcc 5.1 is so five years ago :-), but I could imagine that being > considered inconvenient for some. Actually, RHEL 7 should have the fix (internal bug #1362635, curiously we encountered it in the *XFS* CRC calculation code back then). My understanding is that RHEL 7 aarch64 support ceased completely about a month ago, so that shouldn't be an argument against bumping the minimum version requirement to 5.1. Thanks, Florian -- Red Hat GmbH, https://de.redhat.com/ , Registered seat: Grasbrunn, Commercial register: Amtsgericht Muenchen, HRB 153243, Managing Directors: Charles Cachera, Brian Klemm, Laurie Krebs, Michael O'Neill
