Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753501AbWKHIao (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Nov 2006 03:30:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754449AbWKHIao (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Nov 2006 03:30:44 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:9193 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753501AbWKHIan (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Nov 2006 03:30:43 -0500 Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 00:30:28 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Avi Kivity Cc: Roland Dreier , kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/14] KVM: Kernel-based Virtual Machine (v4) Message-Id: <20061108003028.6212045b.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <45519033.3060409@qumranet.com> References: <454E4941.7000108@qumranet.com> <20061107204440.090450ea.akpm@osdl.org> <455183EA.2020405@qumranet.com> <20061107233323.c984fa9b.akpm@osdl.org> <45519033.3060409@qumranet.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1649 Lines: 50 On Wed, 08 Nov 2006 10:07:15 +0200 Avi Kivity wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Wed, 08 Nov 2006 09:14:50 +0200 > > Avi Kivity wrote: > > > > > >> Roland Dreier wrote: > >> > >>> > That's gas 2.16.1. I assume it needs some super-new binutils. > >>> > > >>> > I'm not sure what to do about this. What's the minimum version? > >>> > >>> According to http://kvm.sourceforge.net/howto.html : > >>> A recent enough binutils (>= 2.16.91.0.2) for vmx instruction support > >>> > >>> > >> Either that or a bunch of ugly .byte macros. > >> > >> > > > > I think we could live with the binutils requirement as long as we can find > > some automagic way of not breaking people's `make allmodconfig'. Because > > quite a lot of those people who do cross-compilation tend to use older > > binutilses. > > > > These crosses are usually for $wierd target on x86 host, right? Not necessarily. If you're going to build kernels with distcc then you need the same toolchain on all machines, so you probably build it with crosstool. Or if you want a consistent, tested, internally-maintained build environment then you use a specific toolchain so your developers aren't dependent on whatever their distro happened to put in /usr/bin > > config AS_VERSION > eval as --version | awk '{ ... }' > > ? It'd be more complex than that :( - 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/