On 08/18/15 22:04, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > > On 18/08/2015 08:52, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >>> Personally, I would not mind deprecating GCC44, but the biggest >>> question I would have is what toolchains do the latest UDK releases >>> claim to support. >>> >>> We also have the issue that every time I ask about deprecating a >>> toolchain, Larry looks at me like I'm crazy. :) >> >> Well, perhaps he can chime in and explain his motivation behind this? >> At some point, we need to start removing things, surely. Larry just >> has a higher tolerance for pain :-) > > RHEL 6 is shipping GCC 4.4. True, there are software collections to > overcome that, but I think supporting GCC 4.4 is a good idea for at > least a couple more years. > > Laszlo, do you still use RHEL 6? Are you building with GCC 4.4?
My laptop dual-boots RHEL-6 and RHEL-7, but I only use RHEL-6 when I need to work on RHEL-6 qemu-kvm or the RHEL-6 kernel. Which is nowadays practically "never", thankfully. In addition, I couldn't sensibly *test* OVMF on a RHEL-6 host, because the RHEL-6 components lack support for the pflash-backed varstore. Which, for me at least, makes *building* OVMF on RHEL-6 kinda moot too. I have a number of Fedora virtual machines just for build-testing with gcc-4.4..gcc-4.9, but they are the consequence of the edk2 compiler support, not the reason for it. :) So, I'm in favor of dropping gcc-4.4 support. (In Fedora release terms, gcc-4.4 corresponds to fc13.) Thanks! Laszlo _______________________________________________ edk2-devel mailing list edk2-devel@lists.01.org https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/edk2-devel
