Re: [Xen-devel] Upping gcc requirement for x86

[George Dunlap <dunlapg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 9:50 AM, George Dunlap <dunlapg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 6:47 PM, Doug Goldstein <cardoe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 3/29/18 12:05 PM, George Dunlap wrote:
>>> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 4:45 PM, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Long term I think we want to get away from building seabios ourselves
>>> altogether; but it's a bit late in the release cycle to work out that
>>> kind of change.
>>>
>>> On the whole I'd probably go with #3 at this point.
>>>
>>>  -George
>>>
>>
>> Violent agreement here. Every distro wants to see this so they can share
>> these blobs. Its what lead to the change to tracking tags in
>> 3dd926a25d866364ce6d46c21f9ac05a82fa7ffb originally.
>
> I don't understand what you mean -- AFAIK there's no *dependency* from
> Xen to any particular version of SeaBIOS (unlike QEMU).  If 1.9 won't
> compile with gcc 4.4, but 1.8 does, we can just point the tag to 4.4.

Sorry, this should say "we can just point the [SeaBIOS] tag to 1.8."

 -G

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