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. - k _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
