Re: [PATCH] xen: Update minimum toolchain requirements

[Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 07/03/2025 17:54, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> GCC 4.1.2 is from 2007, and Binutils 2.16 is a similar vintage.  Clang 3.5 is
> from 2014.  Supporting toolchains this old is a massive development and
> testing burden.
>
> Set a minimum baseline of GCC 5.1 across the board, along with Binutils 2.25
> which is the same age.  These were chosen *3 years ago* as Linux's minimum
> requirements because even back then, they were ubiquitous in distros.  Choose
> Clang/LLVM 11 as a baseline for similar reasons; the Linux commit making this
> change two years ago cites a laudry list of code generation bugs.
>
> This will allow us to retire a lot of compatiblity logic, and start using new
> features previously unavailable because of no viable compatibility option.
>
> Merge the ARM 32bit and 64bit sections now they're the same.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@xxxxxxxxxx>

Cheers,

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Julien Grall