On 2021-10-18 16:07:12 [+0200], Arnd Bergmann wrote: … > Passing e.g. -march=armv6k+fp in place of -march=armv6k would avoid this > issue, but the fallback logic is already broken because all supported > compilers (gcc-5 and higher) are much more recent than these options, > and building with -march=armv5t as a fallback no longer works. > > The best way forward that I see is to just remove all the checks, which > also has the nice side-effect of slightly improving the startup time for > 'make'. > … > This should be safe to apply on all stable kernels, and will be required > in order to keep building them with gcc-11 and higher. Yes, please. > Reported-by: Antonio Terceiro <antonio.terceiro@xxxxxxxxxx> > Reported-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@xxxxxxxxxx> > Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Link: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=996419 > Cc: Matthias Klose <doko@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Just booted Debian 9/ Stretch which ships gcc version 6.3.0 20170516 (Debian 6.3.0-18) to confirm that it fails to compile with the armv5t fallback. Sebastian