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| author |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2025-05-31 08:16:52 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2025-05-31 08:16:52 -0700 |
| commit | dee264c16a6334dcdbea5c186f5ff35f98b1df42 (patch) | |
| tree | 214063436034d0cd74c5a1605058fb29516ba5a8 /Documentation/admin-guide | |
| parent | Merge tag 'soc-newsoc-6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc (diff) | |
| parent | Makefile.kcov: apply needed compiler option unconditionally in CFLAGS_KCOV (diff) | |
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Merge tag 'gcc-minimum-version-6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic
Pull compiler version requirement update from Arnd Bergmann:
"Require gcc-8 and binutils-2.30
x86 already uses gcc-8 as the minimum version, this changes all other
architectures to the same version. gcc-8 is used is Debian 10 and Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 8, both of which are still supported, and
binutils 2.30 is the oldest corresponding version on those.
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 both use gcc-7 as
the system compiler but additionally include toolchains that remain
supported.
With the new minimum toolchain versions, a number of workarounds for
older versions can be dropped, in particular on x86_64 and arm64.
Importantly, the updated compiler version allows removing two of the
five remaining gcc plugins, as support for sancov and structeak
features is already included in modern compiler versions.
I tried collecting the known changes that are possible based on the
new toolchain version, but expect that more cleanups will be possible.
Since this touches multiple architectures, I merged the patches
through the asm-generic tree."
* tag 'gcc-minimum-version-6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic:
Makefile.kcov: apply needed compiler option unconditionally in CFLAGS_KCOV
Documentation: update binutils-2.30 version reference
gcc-plugins: remove SANCOV gcc plugin
Kbuild: remove structleak gcc plugin
arm64: drop binutils version checks
raid6: skip avx512 checks
kbuild: require gcc-8 and binutils-2.30
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst index 70b02f30013a..05301f03b717 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst @@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ Configuring the kernel Compiling the kernel -------------------- - - Make sure you have at least gcc 5.1 available. + - Make sure you have at least gcc 8.1 available. For more information, refer to :ref:`Documentation/process/changes.rst <changes>`. - Do a ``make`` to create a compressed kernel image. It is also possible to do |