On Mon, 12 Feb 2018, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 10:13:44AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> > That actually sounds like we could just
> >
> > (a) make gcc 4.5 be the minimum required version
> >
> > (b) actually error out if we find a bad compiler
>
> So the unofficial plan was to enforce asm-goto and -fentry support by
> hard failure to build, which would get us at gcc-4.6 and then remove all
Has gcc-4.6 a (planned) retpoline backport? IIRC the cutoff for that was
gcc 4.9
Thanks,
tglx
