Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754701AbXHUUlo (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:41:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754817AbXHUUlK (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:41:10 -0400 Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.128.190]:54706 "EHLO fk-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754775AbXHUUlI (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:41:08 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=cN4tXoYMxt/nrUp0m8GRowxotWIePfjMMlyUXlSbA+oCc1bAnsrAPg191j7/xlp63WkmmT4ozcxwCUqsoSPewHIxmCy3GrPYXtIBuP3NwfUZnU2dFopbUyY+WfXhUtyRqfywpVBMpwhGD9/XpDuRjCQzWXtYb9u9IDJ7vrNpstA= Message-ID: <5d6222a80708211341s63f8c1eau922f018e66db49f4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:41:04 -0300 From: "Glauber de Oliveira Costa" To: "Chris Wedgwood" Subject: Re: RFC: drop support for gcc < 4.0 Cc: "Adrian Bunk" , "Randy Dunlap" , "Linus Torvalds" , "Andrew Morton" , "Jarek Poplawski" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org In-Reply-To: <20070821182505.GA20968@puku.stupidest.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070821132038.GA22254@ff.dom.local> <20070821093103.3c097d4a.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20070821173550.GC30705@stusta.de> <20070821182505.GA20968@puku.stupidest.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 888 Lines: 24 On 8/21/07, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 07:35:50PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > Are there any architectures still requiring a gcc < 4.0 ? > > Yes, sadly in some places (embedded) there are people with older > compiler who want newer kernels. Last time I tried a mips build, it would fail the compile unless I was using _exactly_ 3.4.4 (I didn't tried older versions, but did try 3.4.6, for ex.). So I also think the 3.4 series will still have to be around for a while. -- Glauber de Oliveira Costa. "Free as in Freedom" http://glommer.net "The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act." - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/