From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
eric.dumazet@gmail.com, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, "Siddha\,
Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Does anyone care about gcc 3.x support for *x86* anymore?
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 07:08:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BF3F0D3.6070609@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871vd8xb8t.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>
On 05/19/2010 06:38 AM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
>>
>> If there isn't a reason to preserve support, I would like to consider
>> discontinue support for using gcc 3 to compile x86 kernels. If there is
>> a valid use case, it would be good to know what it is.
>
> I suspect there are still distributions around that use it as a standard
> compiler. Wasn't it used in some major release of Debian?
>
> -Andi
There are, but that doesn't mean it's relevant for people to compile
bleeding-edge kernels with it.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-19 14:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-19 1:19 H. Peter Anvin
2010-05-19 7:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-05-19 13:38 ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-19 14:08 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2010-05-19 22:45 ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-05-20 18:37 ` Martin Michlmayr
2010-05-20 19:56 ` Miguel Ojeda
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-05-06 8:45 [PATCH v3 1/2] x86: eliminate TS_XSAVE Avi Kivity
2010-05-12 1:06 ` [tip:x86/fpu] x86: Add new static_cpu_has() function using alternatives tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2010-05-18 20:10 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-18 20:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-05-18 21:11 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-18 21:38 ` Does anyone care about gcc 3.x support for x86 anymore? H. Peter Anvin
2010-05-19 23:10 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2010-05-20 0:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-05-20 0:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-05-20 12:44 ` Ingo Molnar
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