From: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
To: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
eric.dumazet@gmail.com, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
"Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Does anyone care about gcc 3.x support for *x86* anymore?
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 21:56:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikB9Fcyrp-_8XqOWhrxXS1aOVFQRfbzv0vBUQQR@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100520183701.GW26248@jirafa.cyrius.com>
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> wrote:
> * Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> [2010-05-19 15:38]:
>> > If there isn't a reason to preserve support, I would like to consider
>> > discontinue support for using gcc 3 to compile x86 kernels. If there is
>> > a valid use case, it would be good to know what it is.
>>
>> I suspect there are still distributions around that use it as a standard
>> compiler. Wasn't it used in some major release of Debian?
>
> Not in a recent one, no.
Not even in oldstable (etch).
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-20 19:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-19 1:19 Does anyone care about gcc 3.x support for *x86* anymore? H. Peter Anvin
2010-05-19 7:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-05-19 13:38 ` Andi Kleen
2010-05-19 14:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-05-19 22:45 ` Justin P. Mattock
2010-05-20 18:37 ` Martin Michlmayr
2010-05-20 19:56 ` Miguel Ojeda [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-05-06 8:45 [PATCH v3 1/2] x86: eliminate TS_XSAVE Avi Kivity
2010-05-12 1:06 ` [tip:x86/fpu] x86: Add new static_cpu_has() function using alternatives tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2010-05-18 20:10 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-18 20:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-05-18 21:11 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-05-18 21:38 ` Does anyone care about gcc 3.x support for x86 anymore? H. Peter Anvin
2010-05-19 23:10 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2010-05-20 0:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-05-20 0:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-05-20 12:44 ` Ingo Molnar
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