From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>, kernel-build-reports@lists.linaro.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>, "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org> Subject: Re: [RFC] minimum gcc version for kernel: raise to gcc-4.3 or 4.6? Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 20:16:19 +0200 [thread overview] Message-ID: <CAMuHMdWKngq9TAkjEAYscQRVzKpO63-XVcnjzEM0UNVX_1Ddhg@mail.gmail.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a03BTEBgz87k_dhJuqzOYQm_S5FFDrFgcBAE5FCH-e=dQ@mail.gmail.com> Hi Arnd, On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 7:29 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 6:53 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> wrote: >> On Mon, 24 Apr 2017, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >>> > If there's no real good reason (brokenness) to deprecate gcc-4.1, I would not >>> > do it.I guess most people using old compilers know what they're doing. >>> >>> What I'm trying to find out first is whether "people regularly using 10+ >>> year old compilers for the latest kernels" is a strict subset of "people in >>> Geert's household". >> >> Well I do not live with Geert TBH. > > Sorry about that, you had mentioned that you had used it recently, which should > have weighed more than my own results. If you prefer to consider everyone who's been sleeping in the same room at one of the Oldenburg Linux meetings as part of my household, that's fine for me ;-) > So it still fails, but only because of one compiler error that I can avoid by > disabling that driver, and you probably use a slightly patched compiler > version that doesn't have this particular bug, or it was a regression between > gcc-4.1.2 and 4.1.3. Mine is also some patched version of 4.1.1, built from Ubuntu sources: gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.1-21) These sources probably even contained the fixes to make gcc-4.1.1 usable on CELL. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
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From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>, linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>, Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, kernel-build-reports@lists.linaro.org, kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu Subject: Re: [RFC] minimum gcc version for kernel: raise to gcc-4.3 or 4.6? Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 20:16:19 +0200 [thread overview] Message-ID: <CAMuHMdWKngq9TAkjEAYscQRVzKpO63-XVcnjzEM0UNVX_1Ddhg@mail.gmail.com> (raw) Message-ID: <20170424181619.zKR3Q8ZWl4_lYNW9DPdJELSDb_RZ8vuJJkzvO3GYYLs@z> (raw) In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a03BTEBgz87k_dhJuqzOYQm_S5FFDrFgcBAE5FCH-e=dQ@mail.gmail.com> Hi Arnd, On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 7:29 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 6:53 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> wrote: >> On Mon, 24 Apr 2017, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >>> > If there's no real good reason (brokenness) to deprecate gcc-4.1, I would not >>> > do it.I guess most people using old compilers know what they're doing. >>> >>> What I'm trying to find out first is whether "people regularly using 10+ >>> year old compilers for the latest kernels" is a strict subset of "people in >>> Geert's household". >> >> Well I do not live with Geert TBH. > > Sorry about that, you had mentioned that you had used it recently, which should > have weighed more than my own results. If you prefer to consider everyone who's been sleeping in the same room at one of the Oldenburg Linux meetings as part of my household, that's fine for me ;-) > So it still fails, but only because of one compiler error that I can avoid by > disabling that driver, and you probably use a slightly patched compiler > version that doesn't have this particular bug, or it was a regression between > gcc-4.1.2 and 4.1.3. Mine is also some patched version of 4.1.1, built from Ubuntu sources: gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.1-21) These sources probably even contained the fixes to make gcc-4.1.1 usable on CELL. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-24 18:16 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2016-12-16 10:56 [RFC] minimum gcc version for kernel: raise to gcc-4.3 or 4.6? Arnd Bergmann 2016-12-16 10:56 ` Arnd Bergmann 2016-12-16 10:56 ` [PATCH 01/13] [HACK] gcc-4.5: avoid link errors for unused function pointers Arnd Bergmann 2016-12-16 10:56 ` Arnd Bergmann 2016-12-16 10:56 ` [PATCH 02/13] KVM: arm: fix gcc-4.5 build Arnd Bergmann 2016-12-16 10:56 ` Arnd Bergmann 2017-01-04 10:38 ` Christoffer Dall 2017-01-04 10:38 ` Christoffer Dall 2016-12-16 10:56 ` [PATCH 03/13] ARM: div64: fix building with gcc-4.5 and lower Arnd Bergmann 2016-12-16 10:56 ` Arnd Bergmann 2016-12-16 10:56 ` [PATCH 04/13] vfio-pci: use 32-bit comparisons for register address for gcc-4.5 Arnd Bergmann 2016-12-16 10:56 ` Arnd Bergmann 2016-12-16 15:30 ` Alex Williamson 2016-12-16 19:50 ` Arnd Bergmann 2016-12-16 10:56 ` [PATCH 05/13] clk: pxa: fix gcc-4.4 build Arnd Bergmann 2016-12-16 10:56 ` Arnd Bergmann 2016-12-16 10:56 ` [PATCH 06/13] ARM: atomic: " Arnd Bergmann 2016-12-16 10:56 ` Arnd Bergmann 2016-12-16 10:56 ` [PATCH 07/13] watchdog: kempld: fix gcc-4.3 build Arnd Bergmann 2016-12-16 10:56 ` Arnd Bergmann 2016-12-16 10:56 ` [PATCH 08/13] arm/arm64: xen: avoid gcc-4.4 warning Arnd Bergmann 2016-12-16 10:56 ` Arnd Bergmann 2016-12-16 10:56 ` [PATCH 09/13] ARM: mark cmpxchg and xchg __always_inline for gcc-4.3 Arnd Bergmann 2016-12-16 10:56 ` Arnd Bergmann 2016-12-16 10:56 ` [PATCH 10/13] asm-generic: mark cmpxchg as " Arnd Bergmann 2016-12-16 10:56 ` Arnd Bergmann 2016-12-16 10:56 ` [PATCH 11/13] fs: fix unsigned enum warning with gcc-4.2 Arnd Bergmann 2016-12-16 10:56 ` Arnd Bergmann 2017-01-03 22:47 ` Brendan Gregg 2017-02-28 21:53 ` Brendan Gregg 2016-12-16 10:56 ` [PATCH 12/13] KVM: arm: avoid binary number literals for gcc-4.2 Arnd Bergmann 2016-12-16 10:56 ` Arnd Bergmann 2017-01-04 10:39 ` Christoffer Dall 2017-01-04 10:39 ` Christoffer Dall 2016-12-16 10:56 ` [PATCH 13/13] ARM: avoid 'Q' asm constraint for gcc-4.1 and earlier Arnd Bergmann 2016-12-16 10:56 ` Arnd Bergmann 2016-12-16 11:14 ` [RFC] minimum gcc version for kernel: raise to gcc-4.3 or 4.6? Arnd Bergmann 2016-12-16 11:14 ` Arnd Bergmann 2017-04-16 19:52 ` Kees Cook 2017-04-20 10:15 ` Arnd Bergmann 2017-04-20 19:52 ` Kees Cook 2017-04-20 19:52 ` Kees Cook 2017-04-21 20:55 ` Arnd Bergmann 2017-04-21 20:55 ` Arnd Bergmann 2017-04-21 21:05 ` Kees Cook 2017-04-21 21:05 ` Kees Cook 2017-04-22 3:10 ` Maciej W. Rozycki 2017-04-22 3:10 ` Maciej W. Rozycki 2017-04-22 15:30 ` Arnd Bergmann 2017-04-22 15:30 ` Arnd Bergmann 2017-04-23 20:13 ` Geert Uytterhoeven 2017-04-23 20:13 ` Geert Uytterhoeven 2017-04-24 9:44 ` Arnd Bergmann 2017-04-24 9:44 ` Arnd Bergmann 2017-04-24 10:17 ` Geert Uytterhoeven 2017-04-24 10:17 ` Geert Uytterhoeven 2017-04-24 14:13 ` Arnd Bergmann 2017-04-24 16:53 ` Maciej W. Rozycki 2017-04-24 17:29 ` Arnd Bergmann 2017-04-24 18:16 ` Geert Uytterhoeven [this message] 2017-04-24 18:16 ` Geert Uytterhoeven 2017-04-24 18:30 ` Maciej W. Rozycki 2017-04-24 18:30 ` Maciej W. Rozycki 2017-04-24 20:30 ` Arnd Bergmann 2017-04-24 20:52 ` Kees Cook 2017-04-25 7:06 ` Geert Uytterhoeven 2017-04-25 7:06 ` Geert Uytterhoeven 2017-04-25 9:22 ` Suzuki K Poulose 2017-04-25 9:22 ` Suzuki K Poulose 2016-12-16 15:54 ` Geert Uytterhoeven 2016-12-16 15:54 ` Geert Uytterhoeven 2016-12-16 19:58 ` Arnd Bergmann 2016-12-16 19:58 ` Arnd Bergmann 2016-12-16 20:34 ` Geert Uytterhoeven 2016-12-16 20:34 ` Geert Uytterhoeven 2016-12-16 17:00 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 2016-12-16 22:00 ` Arnd Bergmann 2016-12-16 22:00 ` Arnd Bergmann 2016-12-17 11:29 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 2016-12-17 11:29 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 2017-01-02 12:23 ` Russell King - ARM Linux 2017-01-02 12:23 ` Russell King - ARM Linux 2016-12-20 9:59 ` Heiko Carstens 2016-12-20 9:59 ` Heiko Carstens
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