Re: [PATCH] Raise the minimum GCC version to 5.2
From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Date: 2021-05-02 22:31:34
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On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 02:08:31PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
What is relevant is what version of gcc various distributions actually have reasonably easily available, and how old and relevant the distributions are. We did decide that (just as an example) RHEL 7 was too old to worry about when we updated the gcc version requirement last time. Last year, Arnd and Kirill (maybe others were involved too) made a list of distros and older gcc versions. But I don't think anybody actually _maintains_ such a list. It would be perhaps interesting to have some way to check what compiler versions are being offered by different distros.
fwiw, Debian 9 aka Stretch released June 2017 had gcc 6.3 Debian 10 aka Buster released June 2019 had gcc 7.4 *and* 8.3. Debian 8 aka Jessie had gcc-4.8.4 and gcc-4.9.2. So do we care about people who haven't bothered to upgrade userspace since 2017? If so, we can't go past 4.9. _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel