From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> x86 already requires gcc-8.1 since linux-6.15-rc1, which led me to actually go through all version checks and make this is the minimum for all architectures. Most of the actual resulting changes are actually for raising the binutils version, which eliminates version checks on x86 and arm64. Arnd Bergmann (4): kbuild: require gcc-8 and binutils-2.30 raid6: skip avx512 checks x86: remove checks for binutils-2.30 and earlier arm64: drop binutils version checks Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-crypto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-kbuild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst | 2 +- Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst | 4 +- Documentation/process/changes.rst | 4 +- .../translations/it_IT/process/changes.rst | 4 +- .../translations/zh_CN/admin-guide/README.rst | 2 +- arch/arm64/Kconfig | 37 +-------------- arch/arm64/Makefile | 21 +-------- arch/arm64/include/asm/rwonce.h | 4 -- arch/arm64/kvm/Kconfig | 1 - arch/arm64/lib/xor-neon.c | 2 +- arch/um/Makefile | 4 +- arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler | 29 ------------ arch/x86/crypto/Kconfig | 2 +- arch/x86/crypto/Makefile | 12 +++-- arch/x86/crypto/aes-ctr-avx-x86_64.S | 2 - arch/x86/crypto/aes-xts-avx-x86_64.S | 2 - arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intel_glue.c | 21 +-------- arch/x86/crypto/aria-aesni-avx-asm_64.S | 10 ----- arch/x86/crypto/aria-aesni-avx2-asm_64.S | 10 +---- arch/x86/crypto/aria_aesni_avx2_glue.c | 4 +- arch/x86/crypto/aria_aesni_avx_glue.c | 4 +- arch/x86/crypto/blake2s-core.S | 4 -- arch/x86/crypto/blake2s-glue.c | 6 +-- arch/x86/crypto/chacha_glue.c | 6 +-- arch/x86/crypto/poly1305-x86_64-cryptogams.pl | 8 ---- arch/x86/crypto/poly1305_glue.c | 4 +- arch/x86/crypto/sha1_ssse3_glue.c | 10 ----- arch/x86/crypto/sha256_ssse3_glue.c | 10 ----- include/linux/unroll.h | 4 +- kernel/gcov/gcc_4_7.c | 4 -- lib/raid6/algos.c | 6 --- lib/raid6/avx512.c | 4 -- lib/raid6/recov_avx512.c | 6 --- lib/raid6/test/Makefile | 3 -- lib/test_fortify/Makefile | 5 +-- scripts/Makefile.compiler | 2 +- scripts/gcc-plugins/gcc-common.h | 45 ------------------- scripts/min-tool-version.sh | 6 +-- 38 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 278 deletions(-) -- 2.39.5