Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754120Ab3IXMLp (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Sep 2013 08:11:45 -0400 Received: from unicorn.mansr.com ([81.2.72.234]:59881 "EHLO unicorn.mansr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754037Ab3IXMLn convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Sep 2013 08:11:43 -0400 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= To: Rob Landley Cc: Pavel Machek , 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 Subject: Re: new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1 References: <20130923235917.GA30967@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> <1379988800.1974.68@driftwood> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 13:11:38 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1379988800.1974.68@driftwood> (Rob Landley's message of "Mon, 23 Sep 2013 21:13:20 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1012 Lines: 27 Rob Landley writes: > 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? I seriously doubt that 2.12 still works at all (I doubt it can even be built on a modern system). In my experience, binutils older than 2.19 or so rarely works properly for ARM. What value is there in maintaining compatibility with a truly ancient binutils version anyway? -- M?ns Rullg?rd mans@mansr.com -- 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/