On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 11:00:27PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Friday, December 16, 2016 6:00:43 PM CET Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > > On 2016-12-16 11:56:21 [+0100], Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > The original gcc-4.3 release was in early 2008. If we decide to still > > > support that, we probably want the first 10 quirks in this series, > > > while gcc-4.6 (released in 2011) requires none of them. > > > > It this min gcc thingy ARM only? > > This is part of the question that I'm trying to figure out myself. > > Clearly having the same minimum version across all architectures simplifies > things a lot, because many of the bugs in old versions are architecture > independent. Then again, some architectures implicitly require a new version > because an old one never existed (e.g. arm64 or risc-v), while some other > architectures may require an old version. FWIW, s390 requires gcc 4.3 or newer since two years already. For older compilers we enforce a compile error (see arch/s390/kernel/asm-offsets.c). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
