On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 9:03 AM Guenter Roeck <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Nick, > > On 5/26/20 8:40 AM, Nick Desaulniers wrote: > > 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 > > > > That won't help me for my build tests. It is bad enough having to maintain > one compiler. I don't want to add another one to the mix, and I'll happily > leave llvm build tests for ClangBuiltLinux. Guess I'll have to stop hexagon
:( We could use the additional test coverage. > test builds starting with 5.8. > > Guenter -- Thanks, ~Nick Desaulniers
