Messages in this thread | | | From | Andy Lutomirski <> | Date | Mon, 22 Jun 2020 11:26:50 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] selftests/fpu: Add an FPU selftest |
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On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 10:12 AM Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 11:00:28AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > This should be cc-option, not cc-ifversion, I think. > > Why?
For all the ridiculous distro gcc versions out there. Also, it seems less fragile, since it tests for what you actually care about
> > > But maybe we should consider dropping the problematic GCC version > > instead? The old GCC versions with stack alignment problems are > > seriously problematic for x86 kernels, and I don't really trust > > kernels built with them. > > Can't - we just upped min gcc version to 4.8: > > 5429ef62bcf3 ("compiler/gcc: Raise minimum GCC version for kernel builds to 4.8") > > I mean we could but everytime we do that, it is all a big bikeshedding > discussion. Even though almost everyone is using gcc9 or so to build...
Phooey.
> > -- > Regards/Gruss, > Boris. > > https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette
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