On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 8:30 AM Guenter Roeck <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 09:41:37PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote: > > It is very rare to see versions of GCC prior to 4.8 being used to build > > the mainline kernel. These old compilers are also known to have codegen > > issues which can lead to silent miscompilation: > > > > https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58145 > > > > Raise the minimum GCC version to 4.8 for building the kernel and remove > > some tautological Kconfig dependencies as a consequence. > > My hexagon compiler is v4.6.1, and I have been unable to find a more > recent version. Does anyone happen to have a pointer to a hexagon toolchain > with gcc 4.8 or later ?
IIUC, hexagon moved to LLVM, though that target still has issues building the kernel. https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22%5BARCH%5D+hexagon%22 -- Thanks, ~Nick Desaulniers
