Re: [Xen-devel] Clang/LLVM version requirements

[Keir Fraser <keir.xen@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 13/09/2012 16:27, "Ian Campbell" <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> I should add, this is mainly a question of how aggressive we should be. I'm
>> quite happy to retire gcc-3.4 support if it happens it is now broken. In
>> that case, x86/Rules.mk should have its gcc version check updated. And
>> perhaps arch/arm may as well do the same? I would be happy to Ack a patch to
>> that effect.
> 
> Some data points: Debian Squeeze (current stable) has gcc 4.4 as the
> default (but ships a bunch of others) and Lenny (previous stable) had
> 4.3. AFAICT RHEL5 and SLES10 both shipped 4.1, SLES11 shipped 4.3 and
> RHEL 6 4.4.
> 
> Do we really want/need to support host OSes older than RHEL5/SLES10? We
> are talking 2006/7 vintage there.

Yes, I think that is where we are going to draw the line. Thanks.



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