From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'Adrian Bunk' <bunk@kernel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
"alex.gaynor@gmail.com" <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>,
"geofft@ldpreload.com" <geofft@ldpreload.com>,
"jbaublitz@redhat.com" <jbaublitz@redhat.com>,
Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com>
Subject: RE: Linux kernel in-tree Rust support
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2020 14:46:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b7d81a68c0b34acd84b6a78b6d37a776@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200719181919.GA4179@localhost>
From: Adrian Bunk
> Sent: 19 July 2020 19:19
...
> The correct range for a mandatory tool are the 6 to 12 years for gcc.
>
> Debian stable and Ubuntu LTS are providing (different) mechanisms
> for installing the kernel from the next stable/LTS release 2 years
> later[1] for supporting new hardware.
> If kernel 5.12 LTS cannot be compiled on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with
> the 2019 gcc 9 there would be pain downstream.
We have customers that are (still) using RHEL6 (2.6.32 era).
Since we have to build C++ programs that will run on those
systems we have systems with very old toolchains.
(Yes, you can build in a chroot or an a VM but that needs
setting up quite carefully - easier to keep the old machine.)
It is rather a PITA when kernel builds deprecate the installed gcc.
Now I'm not sure a 5.x kernel will run with the userspace from RHEL6.
But I know it runs with that from Ubuntu 13.04.
In a few years I'll be able to use the 13.04 system for release builds
but it is still far too new for that.
However I can no longer build 'current' custom kernels on it.
I've other (newer) systems but they aren't any (maybe much) faster.
David
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-20 14:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-09 18:41 Linux kernel in-tree Rust support Nick Desaulniers
2020-07-09 20:52 ` Miguel Ojeda
2020-07-10 5:36 ` Josh Triplett
2020-07-10 6:28 ` Greg KH
2020-07-10 12:50 ` Christian Brauner
2020-07-10 16:10 ` Kees Cook
[not found] ` <CAFRnB2WNo45J8h3-ncopLKENvcO0rf7J3xsy_eRKwFSpDD-5sQ@mail.gmail.com>
2020-07-10 23:05 ` Kees Cook
2020-07-10 22:59 ` Josh Triplett
2020-07-10 23:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-07-11 21:03 ` Josh Triplett
2020-07-28 20:40 ` Pavel Machek
2020-07-29 6:34 ` Josh Triplett
2020-12-17 21:45 ` Pavel Machek
2020-12-18 3:31 ` Miguel Ojeda
2020-07-11 17:13 ` Geoffrey Thomas
2020-07-12 12:31 ` Adrian Bunk
2020-07-12 19:39 ` Josh Triplett
2020-07-12 20:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-07-12 20:45 ` Adrian Bunk
2020-07-14 8:27 ` David Laight
2020-07-16 13:06 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-07-16 23:12 ` Josh Triplett
2020-07-19 18:19 ` Adrian Bunk
2020-07-20 14:46 ` David Laight [this message]
2020-08-23 21:02 ` Adrian Bunk
2020-08-23 21:54 ` Geoffrey Thomas
2020-07-13 18:11 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-13 21:33 ` Josh Triplett
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