Does anyone care about gcc 3.x support for *x86* anymore?
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From: Martin Michlmayr on 20 May 2010 14:50 * Andi Kleen <andi(a)firstfloor.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/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
From: Miguel Ojeda on 20 May 2010 16:00
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Martin Michlmayr <tbm(a)cyrius.com> wrote: > * Andi Kleen <andi(a)firstfloor.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. Not even in oldstable (etch). > -- > Martin Michlmayr > http://www.cyrius.com/ > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at �http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at �http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ |