On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 05:41:04PM -0300, Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote: > Last time I tried a mips build, it would fail the compile unless I was > using _exactly_ 3.4.4 (I didn't tried older versions, but did try > 3.4.6, for ex.). So I also think the 3.4 series will still have to be > around for a while. I don't know what broken MIPS platform you've tried. I keep changing between compiler versions all the time just so I can ensure builds with older compilers keep working until we officially deciede to drop support for them. So the minimum compiler version for 32-bit MIPS kernels is gcc 3.2 and for 64-bit kernel gcc 3.3. But for sake of sanity and productivity I definately don't mind dumping support for gcc < 4.0 or maybe even 4.1. And while we're at it, let's deprecate ancient binutils version as well. A minimum version of 2.17 would be nice as I could get rid of lads of .word sillyness which is needed to support older binutils. Ralf
