Re: [RFC] minimum gcc version for kernel: raise to gcc-4.3 or 4.6?

Geert Uytterhoeven
2017-04-25T07:06:36Z

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 10:52 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 1:30 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
>> How about this approach then:
>>
>> - To keep it simple, we update the README.rst to say that a minimum
>> gcc-4.3 is required, while recommending gcc-4.9 for all architectures
>> - Support for gcc-4.0 and earlier gets removed from linux/compiler.h,
>> and instead we add a summary of what I found, explaining that
>> gcc-4.1 has active users on a few architectures.
>> - We make the Makefile show a warning once during compilation for
>> gcc earlier than 4.3.
>
> This sounds good to me!

+1

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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