linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] powerpc/io: remove old GCC version implementation

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Date:   Wed, 17 Oct 2018 11:51:07 +1100
From:   Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:     Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@...inera.com>,
        "christophe.leroy\@c-s.fr" <christophe.leroy@....fr>,
        "paulus\@samba.org" <paulus@...ba.org>,
        "benh\@kernel.crashing.org" <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:     "linuxppc-dev\@lists.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        "linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/io: remove old GCC version implementation

Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@...inera.com> writes:

> On Tue, 2018-10-16 at 12:33 +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> GCC 4.6 is the minimum supported now.
>
> Ouch, from kernel 4.19 or earlier even ?

Yes.

Though to be honest we haven't been testing much with compilers older
than that for several years.

If you care about something older please let us know :)

cheers