From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.7 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, UNPARSEABLE_RELAY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DC84C43460 for ; Mon, 3 May 2021 08:55:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F122C60E0C for ; Mon, 3 May 2021 08:55:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S233003AbhECIz6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 May 2021 04:55:58 -0400 Received: from smtprelay0005.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.5]:33842 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S230490AbhECIz5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 May 2021 04:55:57 -0400 Received: from omf03.hostedemail.com (clb03-v110.bra.tucows.net [216.40.38.60]) by smtprelay04.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 659F0180C2CD0; Mon, 3 May 2021 08:55:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [HIDDEN] (Authenticated sender: joe@perches.com) by omf03.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 7813213D93; Mon, 3 May 2021 08:54:58 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] Raise the minimum GCC version to 5.2 From: Joe Perches To: Alexander Dahl , Matthew Wilcox Cc: Linus Torvalds , Segher Boessenkool , Miguel Ojeda , Masahiro Yamada , Albert Ou , Arnd Bergmann , Linux Kbuild mailing list , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Jonathan Corbet , Linux Doc Mailing List , linux-kernel , Palmer Dabbelt , Paul Walmsley , Catalin Marinas , Miguel Ojeda , Paul Mackerras , linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linuxppc-dev , Will Deacon , Linux ARM Date: Mon, 03 May 2021 01:54:57 -0700 In-Reply-To: References: <20210501151538.145449-1-masahiroy@kernel.org> <3943bc020f6227c8801907317fc113aa13ad4bad.camel@perches.com> <20210502183030.GF10366@gate.crashing.org> <81a926a3bdb70debe3ae2b13655ea8d249fb9991.camel@perches.com> <20210502203253.GH10366@gate.crashing.org> <20210502223007.GZ1847222@casper.infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" User-Agent: Evolution 3.38.1-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 7813213D93 X-Stat-Signature: kzayu4orffhmqaa8ff8iq8d4a8ipzp46 X-Rspamd-Server: rspamout01 X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Session-ID: U2FsdGVkX1952/ks3MY8TXp5Ug6xsGLjA9GLFC3+spA= X-HE-Tag: 1620032098-353050 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2021-05-03 at 09:34 +0200, Alexander Dahl wrote: > Desktops and servers are all nice, however I just want to make you > aware, there are embedded users forced to stick to older cross > toolchains for different reasons as well, e.g. in industrial > environment. :-) In your embedded case, what kernel version do you use? For older toolchains, unless it's kernel version 5.13+, it wouldn't matter. And all the supported architectures have gcc 10.3 available at http://cdn.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/