Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:11:53 -0400 | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Bump gcc minimum version to 3.4, 4.1 for x86 | From | Brian Gerst <> |
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On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 4:14 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> wrote: > This patchset bumps the minimum supported gcc version to 3.4 for the > general kernel, and to 4.1 for x86. > > We have had a rash of bug reports related to these really old > compilers and their associated binutils version lately, and it is > clear that the support burden of these older compilers is getting to > be excessive. If you really want to build a kernel on a system that > old you can build or obtain an updated gcc/binutils as well.
What version of binutils does this correspond to? It would be nice to clean up some of the hacks for ancient binutils as well.
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