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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Raise the minimum GCC version to 5.2
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On Mon, 2021-05-03 at 09:34 +0200, Alexander Dahl wrote:
> Desktops and servers are all nice, however I just want to make you
> aware, there are embedded users forced to stick to older cross
> toolchains for different reasons as well, e.g. in industrial
> environment. :-)

In your embedded case, what kernel version do you use?

For older toolchains, unless it's kernel version 5.13+,
it wouldn't matter.

And all the supported architectures have gcc 10.3 available at
http://cdn.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/