Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756234AbXHUUuq (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:50:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751792AbXHUUui (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:50:38 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:38115 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751412AbXHUUuh (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:50:37 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070821202113.GF30705@stusta.de> References: <20070821132038.GA22254@ff.dom.local> <20070821093103.3c097d4a.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20070821173550.GC30705@stusta.de> <20070821191959.GC2642@bingen.suse.de> <20070821195433.GE30705@stusta.de> <20070821202113.GF30705@stusta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <27c412eea99f1f80a3002e9668bd31f8@kernel.crashing.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Jarek Poplawski , Andi Kleen , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Randy Dunlap From: Segher Boessenkool Subject: Re: RFC: drop support for gcc < 4.0 Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:49:49 +0200 To: Adrian Bunk X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.623) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 711 Lines: 19 > How many people e.g. test -rc kernels compiled with gcc 3.2? Why would that matter? It either works or not. If it doesn't work, it can either be fixed, or support for that old compiler version can be removed. The only other policy than "only remove support if things are badly broken" would be "only support what the GCC team supports", which would be >= 4.1 now; and there are very good arguments for supporting more than that with the Linux kernel. Segher - 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/