From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Bump gcc minimum version to 3.4, 4.1 for x86
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:24:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C91479E.3040208@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=JpfhvyxC13U98x5me9U8dU6BHOcGkPC0KK7aW@mail.gmail.com>
On 09/13/2010 05:11 PM, Brian Gerst wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 4:14 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> This patchset bumps the minimum supported gcc version to 3.4 for the
>> general kernel, and to 4.1 for x86.
>>
>> We have had a rash of bug reports related to these really old
>> compilers and their associated binutils version lately, and it is
>> clear that the support burden of these older compilers is getting to
>> be excessive. If you really want to build a kernel on a system that
>> old you can build or obtain an updated gcc/binutils as well.
>
> What version of binutils does this correspond to? It would be nice to
> clean up some of the hacks for ancient binutils as well.
>
4.1 -> 2.16
3.4 -> 2.14/2.15 (gcc 3.4.0 beat binutils 2.15 by a mere 29 days)
This is somewhat unfortunate, since neither of these brackets eliminate
the Binutils Version From Hell, a.k.a. 2.16.
-hpa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-15 22:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-13 20:14 H. Peter Anvin
2010-09-13 20:14 ` [PATCH 1/5] Disallow building with gcc < 3.4 H. Peter Anvin
2010-09-13 21:52 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-09-13 20:14 ` [PATCH 2/5] x86, gcc: Disallow building Linux/x86 with gcc 3.x/4.0 H. Peter Anvin
2010-09-13 20:14 ` [PATCH 3/5] x86, cpu: Remove gcc 3.x workarounds in <asm/cpufeature.h> H. Peter Anvin
2010-09-13 20:14 ` [PATCH 4/5] x86, mem: Remove gcc < 4.1 support code for memcpy() H. Peter Anvin
2010-09-13 20:14 ` [PATCH 5/5] x86, bitops: Remove gcc < 4.1 workaround H. Peter Anvin
2010-09-14 0:11 ` [RFC PATCH 0/5] Bump gcc minimum version to 3.4, 4.1 for x86 Brian Gerst
2010-09-15 22:24 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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