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From:   Mikhail Gavrilov <mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 25 Sep 2022 19:02:39 +0500
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Subject: Re: Unable bisect issue because kernel not building from old commits
To:     Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
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>
> Note that this looks more related to binutils here. Regardless, there
> are pre-built toolchains including compiler+binutils for various gcc
> versions from 4.9 and up here, for all supported architectures:
>
>    https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/
>
> These ones are sufficient to build a kernel and are likely easier to
> deal with than trying to port a patch over a bisect session. For example
> you could have luck with 7.5 which has been supported for a very long
> time and still is supported.

I don't quite understand how to switch to the downloaded binutils
without breaking the distribution.
I am building the kernel with the following command:
$ make clean && make -j32 bzImage && make -j32 modules

Thanks.

-- 
Best Regards,
Mike Gavrilov.