Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Deprecation / Removal of old hardware support

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

Hi Günter,

On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 7:27 PM Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 10:49:25AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 12:02 AM Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 11:40:59PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > > One architecture (unicore32) got saved in the last minute by
> > > > the maintainer saying that he'd rather keep it in tree, despite not
> > > > even having a publicly available toolchain with sources.
> > >
> > > unicore32 no longer builds with the mainline kernel because the
> > > (private) toolchain is too old (gcc < 4.6), so it may be time
> > > to revisit that decision.
> >
> > I'm still building mainline with gcc-4.1.2, using:
> >
> >     git revert 815f0ddb346c1960 # "include/linux/compiler*.h: make
> > compiler-*.h mutually exclusive"
> >     git revert cafa0010cd51fb71 # "Raise the minimum required gcc
> > version to 4.6"
> >
> > leading to one recent bug fix:
> >
> >     https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180823212738.18431-1-geert@linux-m68k.org/
> >
> > and two code improvements:
> >
> >     https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180823212436.17423-1-geert@linux-m68k.org/
> >     https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180823213027.18856-1-geert@linux-m68k.org/
>
> Interesting. How to you manage to not hit the problem reported with
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/8/14/472 ?

Sorry, I forgot I have also applied Andrew's wibble patch:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180814160208.4f4dd7ca142912f5894ddddd@linux-foundation.org/

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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