lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2017]   [Apr]   [25]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
    /
    From
    Date
    SubjectRe: [RFC] minimum gcc version for kernel: raise to gcc-4.3 or 4.6?
    On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 10:52 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
    > On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 1:30 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
    >> How about this approach then:
    >>
    >> - To keep it simple, we update the README.rst to say that a minimum
    >> gcc-4.3 is required, while recommending gcc-4.9 for all architectures
    >> - Support for gcc-4.0 and earlier gets removed from linux/compiler.h,
    >> and instead we add a summary of what I found, explaining that
    >> gcc-4.1 has active users on a few architectures.
    >> - We make the Makefile show a warning once during compilation for
    >> gcc earlier than 4.3.
    >
    > This sounds good to me!

    +1

    Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

    Geert

    --
    Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

    In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
    when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
    -- Linus Torvalds

    \
     
     \ /
      Last update: 2017-04-25 09:07    [W:3.391 / U:0.408 seconds]
    ©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site