Re: [PATCH for-4.15] xen: Bump the minimum version of GCC supported to 4.9 (5.1 on arm64)

[Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 11:32:47AM +0100, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> Does CentOS has something like Debian backports to get updated major
> versions of packages?

Something similar, it's done via SIG. We have SIG virt in which we
build Xen packages among others. And there's a SIG which building newer
version of GCC, we already use it to build the Linux kernel with a newer
version of GCC.

So we should be able to setup the Xen packages to build with a newer
version of GCC, at least in CentOS 7. (I still have to look again at
CentOS 8 or Stream.)

> Also, I think we do maintain Xen on CentOS using a separate
> repository, so newer versions of Xen will be added to CentOS. Adding
> George and Anthony since they know about that.
> 
> Thanks, Roger.

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Anthony PERARD