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Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: remove checks for binutils older than 2.25
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Date:   Tue, 27 Jun 2023 21:58:39 +1000
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Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> writes:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 9:37=E2=80=AFPM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel=
.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 9:12 PM Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Thu, 19 Jan 2023 at 08:24, Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> w=
rote:
>> > >
>> > > Commit e4412739472b ("Documentation: raise minimum supported version=
 of
>> > > binutils to 2.25") allows us to remove the checks for old binutils.
>> > >
>> > > There is no more user for ld-ifversion. Remove it as well.
>> >
>> > ppc kernels fail to link with 2.27 under some configurations:
>> >
>> >  https://github.com/linuxppc/issues/issues/388
>> >
>> > We may want to use ld-ifversion to exclude that version.
>>
>
> Ping?

Sorry. I've now applied the binutils 2.27 patch from Naveen, and this on
top with minor tweaks to make it apply. The result is in my next branch.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux.git/commit/?h=
=3Dnext

cheers