From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <glommer@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>,
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: RFC: drop support for gcc < 4.0
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:15:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070822181532.GB3362@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5d6222a80708211341s63f8c1eau922f018e66db49f4@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 05:41:04PM -0300, Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote:
> 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.
I don't know what broken MIPS platform you've tried. I keep changing
between compiler versions all the time just so I can ensure builds with
older compilers keep working until we officially deciede to drop support
for them. So the minimum compiler version for 32-bit MIPS kernels is
gcc 3.2 and for 64-bit kernel gcc 3.3.
But for sake of sanity and productivity I definately don't mind dumping
support for gcc < 4.0 or maybe even 4.1. And while we're at it, let's
deprecate ancient binutils version as well. A minimum version of 2.17
would be nice as I could get rid of lads of .word sillyness which is
needed to support older binutils.
Ralf
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2007-08-21 20:41 ` RFC: drop support for gcc < 4.0 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 [this message]
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2007-08-22 6:07 ` Jarek Poplawski
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