From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751700Ab0ETSpz (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 May 2010 14:45:55 -0400 Received: from tortuga.cyrius.com ([94.228.35.166]:38364 "EHLO tortuga.cyrius.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751435Ab0ETSpy (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 May 2010 14:45:54 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 526 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 20 May 2010 14:45:54 EDT Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 19:37:01 +0100 From: Martin Michlmayr To: Andi Kleen Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , eric.dumazet@gmail.com, Ingo Molnar , "Siddha, Suresh B" , Thomas Gleixner , Avi Kivity Subject: Re: Does anyone care about gcc 3.x support for *x86* anymore? Message-ID: <20100520183701.GW26248@jirafa.cyrius.com> References: <4BF33CAD.2070602@zytor.com> <871vd8xb8t.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <871vd8xb8t.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Andi Kleen [2010-05-19 15:38]: > > 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? Not in a recent one, no. -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/