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Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 15:45:10 -0700 From: "Justin P. Mattock" <justinmattock@...il.com> To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> CC: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, eric.dumazet@...il.com, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "Siddha\, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com> Subject: Re: Does anyone care about gcc 3.x support for *x86* anymore? On 05/19/2010 07:08 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 05/19/2010 06:38 AM, Andi Kleen wrote: >> "H. Peter Anvin"<hpa@...or.com> writes: >>> >>> If there isn't a reason to preserve support, I would like to consider >>> discontinue support for using gcc 3 to compile x86 kernels. If there is >>> a valid use case, it would be good to know what it is. >> >> I suspect there are still distributions around that use it as a standard >> compiler. Wasn't it used in some major release of Debian? >> >> -Andi > > There are, but that doesn't mean it's relevant for people to compile > bleeding-edge kernels with it. > > -hpa > no need for it here(using 4.6.0).. Any distro still using this version should upgrade(but who am I to say anything) cheers. Justin P. Mattock -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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