Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765367AbYCEWVt (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 17:21:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1765227AbYCEWVf (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 17:21:35 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:51599 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1765203AbYCEWVe (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 17:21:34 -0500 Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:21:33 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20080305.142133.213259829.davem@davemloft.net> To: bunk@kernel.org Cc: matz@suse.de, clattner@apple.com, hpa@zytor.com, richard.guenther@gmail.com, Joe.Buck@synopsys.com, hubicka@ucw.cz, aurelien@aurel32.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: RELEASE BLOCKER: Linux doesn't follow x86/x86-64 ABI wrt direction flag From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20080305221303.GA937@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> References: <738B72DB-A1D6-43F8-813A-E49688D05771@apple.com> <20080305221303.GA937@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 682 Lines: 19 From: Adrian Bunk Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 00:13:04 +0200 > On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 10:59:21PM +0100, Michael Matz wrote: > > The problem is with old kernels, which by definition stay unfixed. > > Compiling older kernels with new gcc versions has never been supported. Adrian we're talking about userland binaries compiled by gcc-4.3, not the kernel. Please follow the discussion if you'd like to contribute. Thanks. -- 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/