[Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Deprecation / Removal of old hardware support

[Guenter Roeck]

Hi Geert,

On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 10:49:25AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Günter,
> 
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 12:02 AM Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net> wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 11:40:59PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > One architecture (unicore32) got saved in the last minute by
> > > the maintainer saying that he'd rather keep it in tree, despite not
> > > even having a publicly available toolchain with sources.
> >
> > unicore32 no longer builds with the mainline kernel because the
> > (private) toolchain is too old (gcc < 4.6), so it may be time
> > to revisit that decision.
> 
> I'm still building mainline with gcc-4.1.2, using:
> 
>     git revert 815f0ddb346c1960 # "include/linux/compiler*.h: make
> compiler-*.h mutually exclusive"
>     git revert cafa0010cd51fb71 # "Raise the minimum required gcc
> version to 4.6"
> 
> leading to one recent bug fix:
> 
>     https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180823212738.18431-1-geert@linux-m68k.org/
> 
> and two code improvements:
> 
>     https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180823212436.17423-1-geert@linux-m68k.org/
>     https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180823213027.18856-1-geert@linux-m68k.org/
> 

Interesting. How to you manage to not hit the problem reported with
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/8/14/472 ?

Thanks,
Guenter