Re: [RFC PATCH 4/7] kconfig: support new special property shell=

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Mon, 12 Feb 2018, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 10:13:44AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > That actually sounds like we could just
> > 
> >  (a) make gcc 4.5 be the minimum required version
> > 
> >  (b) actually error out if we find a bad compiler
> 
> So the unofficial plan was to enforce asm-goto and -fentry support by
> hard failure to build, which would get us at gcc-4.6 and then remove all

Has gcc-4.6 a (planned) retpoline backport? IIRC the cutoff for that was
gcc 4.9

Thanks,

	tglx