From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752546Ab0ESOJE (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 May 2010 10:09:04 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:54264 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752419Ab0ESOJC (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 May 2010 10:09:02 -0400 Message-ID: <4BF3F0D3.6070609@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 07:08:19 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100430 Fedora/3.0.4-2.fc12 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: 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? References: <4BF33CAD.2070602@zytor.com> <871vd8xb8t.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> In-Reply-To: <871vd8xb8t.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 05/19/2010 06:38 AM, Andi Kleen wrote: > "H. Peter Anvin" 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.