[PATCH] toolchain: gcc: Remove support for GCC 5

Hauke Mehrtens hauke at hauke-m.de
Tue Dec 15 20:11:21 EST 2020


On 12/16/20 1:21 AM, Paul Spooren wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mi, Dez 16, 2020 at 00:24, Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de> wrote:
>> GCC was used in 17.01 as the default compiler the last time. We do not
>> test this old GCC version any more and there are some known problems it
>> fails to compile the U-Boot for the Allwinner A64 SoC.
>>
>> Just remove it to make it clear that we will not support this old GCC
>> version any more.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de>
>> ---
> 
> Acked-by: Paul Spooren <mail at aparcar.org>
> 
> This goes hand in hand with Petrs gcc6+ patches.
> 
> I'm wondering if these major version requirement changes should happen 
> before or after the 20.x change, I'd like the former.

In do not want to support gcc 5 in the next major release and think we 
should remove this before branching. I am still unsure about gcc 7.

Hauke

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