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Tue, 04 May 2021 01:38:43 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20210501151538.145449-1-masahiroy@kernel.org> <3943bc020f6227c8801907317fc113aa13ad4bad.camel@perches.com> <65cda2bb-1b02-6ebc-0ea2-c48927524aa0@codethink.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <65cda2bb-1b02-6ebc-0ea2-c48927524aa0@codethink.co.uk> From: Miguel Ojeda Date: Tue, 4 May 2021 10:38:32 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] Raise the minimum GCC version to 5.2 To: Ben Dooks Cc: Joe Perches , Masahiro Yamada , linux-kernel , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kbuild mailing list , Arnd Bergmann , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Will Deacon , Miguel Ojeda , Catalin Marinas , Albert Ou , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Jonathan Corbet , Michael Ellerman , Palmer Dabbelt , Paul Mackerras , Paul Walmsley , Linux ARM , Linux Doc Mailing List , linux-riscv , linuxppc-dev X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20210504_013844_973672_E68443DA X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 12.49 ) X-BeenThere: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 9:57 AM Ben Dooks wrote: > > Some of us are a bit stuck as either customer refuses to upgrade > their build infrastructure or has paid for some old but safety > blessed version of gcc. These often lag years behind the recent > gcc releases :( In those scenarios, why do you need to build mainline? Aren't your customers using longterm or frozen kernels? If they are paying for certified GCC images, aren't they already paying for supported kernel images from some vendor too? I understand where you are coming from -- I have also dealt with projects/machines running ancient, unsupported software/toolchains for various reasons; but nobody expected upstream (and in particular the mainline kernel source) to support them. In the cases I experienced, those use cases require not touching anything at all, and when the time came of doing so, everything would be updated at once, re-certified/validated as needed and frozen again. Cheers, Miguel _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel