Re: [PATCH 2/2] selftests/fpu: Add an FPU selftest

[Borislav Petkov]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 11:00:28AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> This should be cc-option, not cc-ifversion, I think.

Why?

> 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...

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