Re: [PATCH v4 00/16] x86-64: Stack protector and percpu improvements

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Mon Mar 25 2024 - 12:41:20 EST


On Sat, Mar 23, 2024, at 18:06, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Mar 2024 at 09:16, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The SLES situation seems somewhat similar, with SLES12 being 4.8.x and
> SLES15 being 7.3. But again with a "Development Tools Module" setup.
> So that *might* argue for 7.3.

According to https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=sle, they
also provide gcc-12.2.1 with the sp5 update, so we're probably fine.

On the other hand, I can see that OpenSUSE Leap 15.6 contains
a fairly modern kernel (6.4.x) built with the gcc-7.3 system
compiler, and I think this is the same one as in SLES.

Not sure if they plan to update the kernel release beyond that,
or how inconvenient it would be for them to require
using the other compiler for future updates, so I've added
the developers that last touched the OpenSUSE kernel RPM
package to Cc here.

Arnd