From: tsbogend@alpha.franken.de (Thomas Bogendoerfer)
To: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <glommer@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>,
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: RFC: drop support for gcc < 4.0
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 08:59:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070822065930.GA6459@alpha.franken.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5d6222a80708211341s63f8c1eau922f018e66db49f4@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 05:41:04PM -0300, Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote:
> On 8/21/07, Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 07:35:50PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >
> > > Are there any architectures still requiring a gcc < 4.0 ?
> >
> > Yes, sadly in some places (embedded) there are people with older
> > compiler who want newer kernels.
>
> 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.
that's fixed and I'm happiliy building the MIPS tree with gcc 3.3.3.
And I would be very unhappy to upgrade all my crosscompiler just because
someone thinks nobody build -rc kernel with older compilers. I do.
Thomas.
--
Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessary a
good idea. [ RFC1925, 2.3 ]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-22 8:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-21 13:20 2.6.23-rc3-git3 make warnings Jarek Poplawski
2007-08-21 15:07 ` [Git Patch] ACPI: Fix a warning of discarding qualifiers from pointer target type WANG Cong
2007-08-21 15:14 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2007-08-21 15:18 ` Al Viro
2007-08-21 15:22 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2007-08-21 15:47 ` Al Viro
2007-08-23 0:59 ` Brown, Len
2007-08-23 0:59 ` Brown, Len
2007-08-23 1:28 ` Al Viro
2007-08-22 7:57 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-08-21 16:17 ` 2.6.23-rc3-git3 make warnings WANG Cong
2007-08-21 16:44 ` Greg KH
2007-08-21 16:57 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-08-21 16:57 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-08-21 16:31 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-08-21 17:35 ` RFC: drop support for gcc < 4.0 Adrian Bunk
2007-08-21 17:54 ` Russell King
2007-08-21 17:54 ` Russell King
2007-08-21 18:14 ` Kyle McMartin
2007-08-21 18:29 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-08-22 5:48 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-08-21 18:25 ` Chris Wedgwood
2007-08-21 20:41 ` Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-08-21 20:56 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-08-21 21:01 ` Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-08-22 6:59 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer [this message]
2007-08-22 18:15 ` Ralf Baechle
2007-08-21 19:19 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-21 19:54 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-08-21 20:07 ` [RFC][PATCH] introduce TASK_SIZE_OF() for all arches Matthew Wilcox
2007-08-21 20:08 ` RFC: drop support for gcc < 4.0 Linus Torvalds
2007-08-21 20:21 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-08-21 20:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-22 7:36 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-08-21 20:49 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-08-21 21:21 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-08-21 21:49 ` James Bottomley
2007-08-21 22:09 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-08-22 0:08 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-08-22 6:07 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-08-21 21:41 ` Oliver Pinter
2007-08-22 7:57 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-22 8:08 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-08-22 8:10 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-22 8:42 ` Michal Piotrowski
2007-08-22 8:56 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-08-22 8:48 ` Martin Michlmayr
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