Re: [2.6 patch] remove support for gcc < 3.2

[Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>]

On Thu, 2005-08-04 11:34:27 +1000, Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/1/05, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:
> > This patch removes support for gcc < 3.2 .
> > 
> > The advantages are:
> > - reducing the number of supported gcc versions from 8 to 4 [1]
> >   allows the removal of several #ifdef's and workarounds
> > - my impression is that the older compilers are only rarely
> >   used, so miscompilations of a driver with an old gcc might
> >   not be detected for a longer amount of time
> > 
> >
> 
> Another disadvantage is you'll really piss of the VAX developers (all
> 3 of us!!!, well me not so much anymore...)
> 
> I think there is a gcc 4.x compiler nearly capable of building a
> kernel for the VAX...

-sh-3.00# cat cpuinfo
cpu             : VAX
cpu type        : KA43
cpu sid         : 0x0b000006
cpu sidex       : 0x04010002
page size       : 4096
BogoMIPS        : 10.08
-sh-3.00# cat version
Linux version 2.6.12 (jbglaw@d2) (gcc version 4.1.0 20050803 (experimental)) #2 Wed Aug 3 23:42:11 CEST 2005

Current GCC from CVS (plus minor configury patches) seems to work. We
had -fno-unit-at-a-time missing in our arch Makefile which hides a bug
in kernel's sources.

I guess that if you remove -fno-unit-at-a-time from i386 and use a
current GCC, you'll run into that fun, too.

MfG, JBG
PS: Yes, we lie about page size.

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