Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 13 Sep 2010 10:26:51 -0700 | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: don't compile with gcc-3.3.3 |
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On 09/13/2010 09:33 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: >> >> Does it in fact still build with 3.4? I seem to recall some talk about >> pushing the minimum version to 4.x for x86, although I can't remember >> where.. > > I'm still building kernels with gcc 3.4.3 (for the ARMs which don't > require a later compiler) or gcc 4.3.2+patches for those which do. > > ARM gcc 3.4.3 is certainly noticably faster than gcc 4.3.2 even on > x86 - and as long as ARM gcc 3.4.3 works, and there's not great pain > in allowing it to build the arch-independent stuff, I see no reason > to deny it across the entire kernel build. > > I think we should have a minimum compiler version for the generic > kernel, and individual minimum compiler versions for the architectures, > so that arches can specify a higher minimum compiler version if they > have specific problems there.
Yes, I don't think anyone has proposed bumping past 3.4 for the generic kernel at this time.
-hpa
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