On 08/28/2017 07:57 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: >> As someone who can no longer run Debian stable on his MIPS device due >> to the CPU requirements bump in stretch, I'm not sure that bumping >> CPU >> requirements is a good idea in general. If there are actual benefits >> to v5 as the default then bumping it could be a good idea. > > IIRC some important part of the toolchain (gcc?) has bumped their > baseline to v5 quite a while back, so we are already living on borrowed > time wrt toolchain support. (This was from an ARM BoF several debconf's > ago, I can't seem to find a reference right now though).
I don't think that's the case. Even gcc-8 still builds perfectly fine and so does LLVM. There had been issues with std::future on armel for a long time due to the lack of atomics in hardware on ARM prior to v7 but this issue has been resolved in a different way upstream now. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
