From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-toolchains@vger.kernel.org,
Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: gcc 5 & 6 & others already out of date?
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2022 10:37:21 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y0g+wTTJmlaFVLzr@zx2c4.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y0g8HEYHZYHGdwlf@sirena.org.uk>
On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 05:26:04PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> Note that I'm not saying we shouldn't upgrade our requirements at all,
> just that I'm worrying about going from one extreme to the other in
> terms of version requirements - it feels like there's a step change when
> you move from things you can get in current release distros people are
> likely to be using to things that will require a large proportion of
> people to install extra stuff. At the minute we're more at the other
> end where it can be hard to figure out who'd even have the oldest
> versions we support without deliberately seeking them out and keeping
> them going is noticably making work for people.
Regarding "one extreme to the other", I suspect that in spite of my
arguments, which would seem to justify an extreme, the actual thing I
suggested is a bit more moderate: let's support the latest 2 or 3 gccs
at the time of kernel release. If we choose 3, that's roughly 3 years of
gccs, right? 3 years seems like a fairly long amount of time.
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-13 16:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-13 1:36 gcc 5 & 6 & others already out of date? Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-10-13 12:22 ` David Laight
2022-10-13 12:59 ` Mark Brown
2022-10-13 15:23 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-10-13 16:18 ` Willy Tarreau
2022-10-14 4:28 ` David Laight
2022-10-14 5:27 ` Willy Tarreau
2022-10-13 16:26 ` Mark Brown
2022-10-13 16:37 ` Jason A. Donenfeld [this message]
2022-10-13 16:51 ` Willy Tarreau
2022-10-13 17:16 ` Mark Brown
2022-10-13 18:38 ` Florian Weimer
2022-10-13 20:23 ` Mark Brown
2022-10-14 6:15 ` Florian Weimer
2022-10-13 18:39 ` Florian Weimer
2022-10-13 21:03 ` Nick Desaulniers
2022-10-14 6:37 ` Florian Weimer
2022-10-13 21:08 ` Nick Desaulniers
2022-10-14 1:31 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2022-10-14 11:13 ` Mark Brown
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