Messages in this thread | | | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Date | Tue, 25 Apr 2017 09:06:36 +0200 | Subject | Re: [RFC] minimum gcc version for kernel: raise to gcc-4.3 or 4.6? |
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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
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