On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 09:28 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: > On Apr 17, 2012, at 11:42 PM, Anton Blanchard wrote: > > > > > Older versions of gcc had issues with using -maltivec together with > > -mcpu of a non altivec capable CPU. We work around it by specifying > > -mcpu=970, but the logic is complicated. > > > > In preparation for adding more -mcpu targets, remove the workaround > > and just require gcc 4.0 for 64-bit builds. > > > > Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <an...@samba.org> > > --- > > > > 4.0 came out in 2005 and the gcc on RHEL5 and SLES10 looks to be 4.1. > > I highly doubt a ppc64 kernel will build these days on either RHEL4 or > > SLES9. > > > > Anything else we have to worry about? > > There are probably embedded customers that might utilize older compilers, so > this concerns me a little.
For 64-bit ? I doubt it ... Cheers, Ben. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
