Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753288Ab3IXCN0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Sep 2013 22:13:26 -0400 Received: from mail-ob0-f170.google.com ([209.85.214.170]:43419 "EHLO mail-ob0-f170.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752744Ab3IXCNY convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Sep 2013 22:13:24 -0400 Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 21:13:20 -0500 From: Rob Landley Subject: Re: new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1 To: Pavel Machek Cc: Will Deacon , Trivial patch monkey , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , Catalin Marinas In-Reply-To: <20130923235917.GA30967@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> (from pavel@ucw.cz on Mon Sep 23 18:59:17 2013) X-Mailer: Balsa 2.4.11 Message-Id: <1379988800.1974.68@driftwood> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; DelSp=Yes; Format=Flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1297 Lines: 30 On 09/23/2013 06:59:17 PM, Pavel Machek wrote: > During 3.12-rc, Will Deacon introduced code into arch/arm that > requires binutils 2.22. Um, my toolchain is using the last gplv2 snapshot of binutils out of git, which is just past 2.17 and can build armv7 (but not armv8). Binutils 2.12->2.22 is quite the jump. (11 years.) I'd except some thought to have gone into that? Possibly a mention of it? > diff --git a/Documentation/Changes b/Documentation/Changes > index b175808..0f8deaf 100644 > --- a/Documentation/Changes > +++ b/Documentation/Changes > @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ you probably needn't concern yourself with > isdn4k-utils. > > o Gnu C 3.2 # gcc --version > o Gnu make 3.80 # make --version > -o binutils 2.12 # ld -v > +o binutils 2.22 # ld -v When the sh4 platform did this, I just reverted the patch. (It still reverts cleanly ~4 years later, and builds with my old tool versions...) Rob-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/