Re: [PATCH v3 06/20] seqlock: Extend seqcount API with associated locks

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Jul 08 2020 - 12:16:19 EST


On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 05:58:13PM +0200, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 05:35:22PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> ...
> >
> > And while the gcc-4.8 code is horrendous crap, the rest should be pretty
> > straight forward and concentrates on the pieces where there are
> > differences.
> >
>
> Is there any possibility of upgrading the minimum gcc version to 4.9? Is
> there any supported architecture that is still stuck on 4.8?

Upgrading also got mention here:

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wgD+q+oDdtukYC74_cDX5i0Ynf0GLhuNe2Faaokejj6fQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

But it didn't get much response.