Re: [PATCH V17 4/7] rust/powerpc: Set min rustc version for powerpc

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Hi,

On Wed, Jul 08, 2026 at 01:54:51PM +0530, Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM) wrote:
> Minimum `rustc` version required for powerpc is 1.95 as some critical
> features required for compiling rust code for kernel are not there.
> 
> For example Stable inline asm support which got merged in 1.95.

Didn’t we decide on 1.85.0 with the asm_experimental_arch feature
instead?  And possibly on 64-bit 1.87.0 if it isn’t possible to disable
altivec correctly there?

> 
> Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/147996
> Signed-off-by: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya (IBM) <mkchauras@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  scripts/min-tool-version.sh | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/min-tool-version.sh b/scripts/min-tool-version.sh
> index 031f2192b390..99bfdcaa3396 100755
> --- a/scripts/min-tool-version.sh
> +++ b/scripts/min-tool-version.sh
> @@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ llvm)
>  rustc)
>  	if [ "$SRCARCH" = "s390" ]; then
>  		echo 1.96.0
> +	elif [ "$ARCH" = powerpc ]; then
> +		echo 1.95.0
>  	else
>  		echo 1.85.0
>  	fi
> -- 
> 2.55.0
> 
> 

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