linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] EFI fixes

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Message-ID: <20200628193448.GD18730@zn.tnic>
Date:   Sun, 28 Jun 2020 21:34:48 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
        linux-efi <linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] EFI fixes

On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 09:26:45PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> Arnd may know more, but I know one of the reasons 4.8 is significant
> is because RHEL 7 uses it, which will go EOL in 2024.

Yeah, I always question the relevance of this argument because distros:

* backport fixes for the compiler so gcc-4.8 in the distro is not always
upstream gcc-4.8

* they build the distro kernel with that compiler and former is
something old.

Yeah, it can happen that some backported patch has trouble building with
the distro compiler but that is kinda seldom.

IMHO, of course.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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