* Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 07, 2025 at 11:41:12AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > 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 > > This is intended to supersede the patches from Uros that removed checks for > binutils < 2.25, right? See: > > * https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/20250404074135.520812-1-ubizjak@xxxxxxxxx/ > * https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/20250404074135.520812-2-ubizjak@xxxxxxxxx > * https://lore.kernel.org/linux-crypto/20250404074135.520812-3-ubizjak@xxxxxxxxx/ Yeah, so these commits (now pending in the x86 tree) should nicely complement each other, there shouldn't be much friction other than: a72d55dc3bd6 x86/idle: Remove CONFIG_AS_TPAUSE ... which will have a conflict in arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler but is straightforward to resolve. > If we can indeed bump up the requirement to 2.30, that would be great. Agreed. Thanks, Ingo
