From cd4eaccc00d79ab97d9a96f7922558558b13f220 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lukas Bulwahn Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2025 10:21:38 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] treewide: drop outdated compiler version remarks in Kconfig help texts As of writing, Documentation/Changes states the minimal versions of GNU C being 8.1, Clang being 15.0.0 and binutils being 2.30. A few Kconfig help texts are pointing out that specific GCC and Clang versions are needed, but by now, those pointers to versions, such later than 4.0, later than 4.4, or clang later than 5.0, are obsolete and unlikely to be found by users configuring their kernel builds anyway. Drop these outdated remarks in Kconfig help texts referring to older compiler and binutils versions. No functional change. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251010082138.185752-1-lukas.bulwahn@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn Cc: Bill Wendling Cc: Justin Stitt Cc: Nathan Chancellor Cc: Russel King Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- arch/Kconfig | 19 ++++++++----------- arch/arm/Kconfig | 2 -- lib/Kconfig.debug | 3 +-- 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig index 61130b88964b9..31220f512b16d 100644 --- a/arch/Kconfig +++ b/arch/Kconfig @@ -232,17 +232,14 @@ config HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS config ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP bool help - Modern versions of GCC (since 4.4) have builtin functions - for handling byte-swapping. Using these, instead of the old - inline assembler that the architecture code provides in the - __arch_bswapXX() macros, allows the compiler to see what's - happening and offers more opportunity for optimisation. In - particular, the compiler will be able to combine the byteswap - with a nearby load or store and use load-and-swap or - store-and-swap instructions if the architecture has them. It - should almost *never* result in code which is worse than the - hand-coded assembler in . But just in case it - does, the use of the builtins is optional. + GCC and Clang have builtin functions for handling byte-swapping. + Using these allows the compiler to see what's happening and + offers more opportunity for optimisation. In particular, the + compiler will be able to combine the byteswap with a nearby load + or store and use load-and-swap or store-and-swap instructions if + the architecture has them. It should almost *never* result in code + which is worse than the hand-coded assembler in . + But just in case it does, the use of the builtins is optional. Any architecture with load-and-swap or store-and-swap instructions should set this. And it shouldn't hurt to set it diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig index 4fb985b76e97f..ff61891abe53a 100644 --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig @@ -1161,8 +1161,6 @@ config AEABI disambiguate both ABIs and allow for backward compatibility support (selected with CONFIG_OABI_COMPAT). - To use this you need GCC version 4.0.0 or later. - config OABI_COMPAT bool "Allow old ABI binaries to run with this kernel (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on AEABI && !THUMB2_KERNEL diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 3034e294d50df..e89c024dcbdfb 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -332,8 +332,7 @@ config DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED_ZLIB depends on $(cc-option,-gz=zlib) depends on $(ld-option,--compress-debug-sections=zlib) help - Compress the debug information using zlib. Requires GCC 5.0+ or Clang - 5.0+, binutils 2.26+, and zlib. + Compress the debug information using zlib. Users of dpkg-deb via debian/rules may find an increase in size of their debug .deb packages with this config set, due to the -- 2.47.3