Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756992Ab1CBSQD (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2011 13:16:03 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:40021 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755568Ab1CBSQB (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2011 13:16:01 -0500 Message-ID: <4D6E8932.1010405@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 10:15:14 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101209 Fedora/3.1.7-0.35.b3pre.fc14 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Mailing List CC: Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner Subject: RFC: x86: kill binutils 2.16.x? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 814 Lines: 22 binutils 2.16 (and presumably its prereleases, binutils 2.15.9x) appears to have more bugs than any other version of binutils released in modern history, *before or after*. We chronically run into problems because that particular binutils version breaks code that works fine elsewhere. I would like to know who would suffer from formally discontinuing support for that version. I understand some version of SLES shipped it, but I don't know for sure. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- 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/