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Thu, 19 Dec 2024 07:03:14 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 13:02:46 +0100 From: "Arnd Bergmann" To: "Mark Rutland" Cc: "Ard Biesheuvel" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Ard Biesheuvel" , x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" , "Andy Lutomirski" , "Peter Zijlstra" , "Uros Bizjak" , "Dennis Zhou" , "Tejun Heo" , "Christoph Lameter" , "Mathieu Desnoyers" , "Paolo Bonzini" , "Vitaly Kuznetsov" , "Juergen Gross" , "Boris Ostrovsky" , "Greg Kroah-Hartman" , "Masahiro Yamada" , "Kees Cook" , "Nathan Chancellor" , "Keith Packard" , "Justin Stitt" , "Josh Poimboeuf" , "Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo" , "Namhyung Kim" , "Jiri Olsa" , "Ian Rogers" , "Adrian Hunter" , "Kan Liang" , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, Linux-Arch , linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org, llvm@lists.linux.dev Message-Id: <0afeae21-a663-43c9-91ff-f0357f5ac06b@app.fastmail.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20240925150059.3955569-30-ardb+git@google.com> <20240925150059.3955569-32-ardb+git@google.com> Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 02/28] Documentation: Bump minimum GCC version to 8.1 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, Dec 19, 2024, at 12:53, Mark Rutland wrote: > On Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 03:58:38PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 25, 2024, at 15:01, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >> > From: Ard Biesheuvel >> >> We obviously need to go through all the other version checks >> to see what else can be cleaned up. I would suggest we also >> raise the binutils version to 2.30+, which is what RHEL8 >> shipped alongside gcc-8. I have not found other distros that >> use older binutils in combination with gcc-8 or higher, >> Debian 10 uses binutils-2.31. >> I don't think we want to combine the additional cleanup with >> your series, but if we can agree on the version, we can do that >> in parallel. > > Were you planning to send patches to that effect, or did you want > someone else to do that? I think we were largely agreed on making those > changes, but it wasn't clear to me who was actually going to send > patches, and I couldn't spot a subsequent thread on LKML. I hadn't planned on doing that, but I could help (after my vacation). As Ard already posted the the patch for gcc, I was expecting that this one would get merged along with the other patches in the series. Ard, what is the status of your series, is this likely to make it into 6.14, or should we have a separate patch to just raise the minimum gcc and binutils version independent of your work? Arnd