linux-kernel - Re: Does anyone care about gcc 3.x support for *x86* anymore?

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Message-ID: <20100520183701.GW26248@jirafa.cyrius.com>
Date:	Thu, 20 May 2010 19:37:01 +0100
From:	Martin Michlmayr <tbm@...ius.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	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?

* Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> [2010-05-19 15:38]:
> > 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?

Not in a recent one, no.
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/
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