From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753854Ab0IOWYe (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:24:34 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:59136 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752604Ab0IOWYd (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:24:33 -0400 Message-ID: <4C91479E.3040208@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:24:30 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100806 Fedora/3.1.2-1.fc13 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Gerst CC: "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Bump gcc minimum version to 3.4, 4.1 for x86 References: <1284408880-14414-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 09/13/2010 05:11 PM, Brian Gerst wrote: > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 4:14 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> This patchset bumps the minimum supported gcc version to 3.4 for the >> general kernel, and to 4.1 for x86. >> >> We have had a rash of bug reports related to these really old >> compilers and their associated binutils version lately, and it is >> clear that the support burden of these older compilers is getting to >> be excessive. If you really want to build a kernel on a system that >> old you can build or obtain an updated gcc/binutils as well. > > What version of binutils does this correspond to? It would be nice to > clean up some of the hacks for ancient binutils as well. > 4.1 -> 2.16 3.4 -> 2.14/2.15 (gcc 3.4.0 beat binutils 2.15 by a mere 29 days) This is somewhat unfortunate, since neither of these brackets eliminate the Binutils Version From Hell, a.k.a. 2.16. -hpa