From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754869Ab0IMUOw (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:14:52 -0400 Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:39660 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751708Ab0IMUOu (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:14:50 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.56,360,1280732400"; d="scan'208";a="656856225" From: "H. Peter Anvin" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: Florian Mickler , Peter Zijlstra , Russell King , Mike Frysinger , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Bump gcc minimum version to 3.4, 4.1 for x86 Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:14:35 -0700 Message-Id: <1284408880-14414-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.2.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. Documentation/Changes | 2 +- arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h | 7 ------- arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 7 ------- arch/x86/include/asm/string_32.h | 21 --------------------- arch/x86/kernel/Makefile | 3 ++- arch/x86/kernel/compiler.c | 5 +++++ include/linux/compiler-gcc3.h | 15 +-------------- 7 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)