linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86, build: remove -m16 workaround for unsupported versions of GCC

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Message-ID: <400efca21b03186bde263f5c87c1f42d6955410e.camel@infradead.org>
Date:   Tue, 01 Dec 2020 09:49:52 +0000
From:   David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, build: remove -m16 workaround for unsupported
 versions of GCC

On Mon, 2020-11-30 at 17:13 -0800, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> A revert of the following two commits.
> commit de3accdaec88 ("x86, build: Build 16-bit code with -m16 where
> possible")
> commit a9cfccee6604 ("x86, build: Change code16gcc.h from a C header to
> an assembly header")
> 
> Since commit 0bddd227f3dc ("Documentation: update for gcc 4.9
> requirement") the minimum supported version of GCC is gcc-4.9.  It's now
> safe to remove this code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>

Reviewed-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@...zon.co.uk>

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