From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: drop support for gcc < 4.0
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:49:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <27c412eea99f1f80a3002e9668bd31f8@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070821202113.GF30705@stusta.de>
> How many people e.g. test -rc kernels compiled with gcc 3.2?
Why would that matter? It either works or not. If it doesn't
work, it can either be fixed, or support for that old compiler
version can be removed.
The only other policy than "only remove support if things are
badly broken" would be "only support what the GCC team supports",
which would be >= 4.1 now; and there are very good arguments for
supporting more than that with the Linux kernel.
Segher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-21 20:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <20070821093103.3c097d4a.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
2007-08-21 17:35 ` RFC: drop support for gcc < 4.0 Adrian Bunk
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
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 [this message]
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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