From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.128.189]:54371 "EHLO fk-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754786AbXHUUlI (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:41:08 -0400 Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id z23so1566230fkz for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:41:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5d6222a80708211341s63f8c1eau922f018e66db49f4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:41:04 -0300 From: "Glauber de Oliveira Costa" Subject: Re: RFC: drop support for gcc < 4.0 In-Reply-To: <20070821182505.GA20968@puku.stupidest.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070821132038.GA22254@ff.dom.local> <20070821093103.3c097d4a.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20070821173550.GC30705@stusta.de> <20070821182505.GA20968@puku.stupidest.org> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Chris Wedgwood Cc: Adrian Bunk , Randy Dunlap , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Jarek Poplawski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org List-ID: On 8/21/07, Chris Wedgwood 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. -- Glauber de Oliveira Costa. "Free as in Freedom" http://glommer.net "The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act."