Re: [LEDE-DEV] U-Boot v2018.01 requiring GCC6

2018-02-13 Thread Joel Wirāmu Pauling
Shouldn't a jump to gcc 7.2 or 8 with the Retopoline patches included, be the target given meltdown/spectre mitigations? This is going to affect newer Arm (mvebu potentially) and atom/x86 builds - although these use grub generally so not so much specific to uboot not compiling. -Joel On 14 Febr

[LEDE-DEV] U-Boot v2018.01 requiring GCC6

2018-02-13 Thread p . wassi
Hey guys, as of U-Boot v2018.01, the bootloader requires at least a GCC 6 based toolchain for ARM targets [1]. Building will fail with GCCs prior to 6. (I.e. current default 5.5.0) For the Kirkwood target, I've prepared a patch to bring it to v2018.01, but that would result in a failed build as