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

From: David Woodhouse
Date: Mon Feb 12 2018 - 11:26:17 EST


On Mon, 2018-02-12 at 09:26 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 10:13:44AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> > That actually sounds like we could just
>
> >Â (a) make gcc 4.5 be the minimum required version
>
> >Â (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
> the fallback cruft needed for those features -- for x86. If we want to
> do this tree wide, that's obviously OK with me too ;-)

This would also kill clang support, right?

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