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

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 06:05:57PM +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 4:45 PM, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > Seabios has bumped their requirement to 4.6 (released 7 years ago). We
> > either need to bump our too or have a separate entry for seabios.
> 
> RHEL / CentOS 6 are still supported, and they come with GCC 4.4.

Where is this listed in xen.git? Supported in what sense?

> 
> Other potential options:
> 
> 1. Have configure disable seabios if the gcc version is too old
> 2. Have configure change to an older seabios release if gcc is too old
> 3. Downgrade the seabios tag / changeset to a version that builds with
> older gcc versions
> 
> 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

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