Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757447Ab1CBUN1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2011 15:13:27 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:43451 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756936Ab1CBUN0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2011 15:13:26 -0500 Message-ID: <4D6EA473.9000001@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:11:31 -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.fc13 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Vegard Nossum Subject: Re: RFC: x86: kill binutils 2.16.x? References: <4D6E8932.1010405@zytor.com> <20110302120339.efd60504.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20110302120339.efd60504.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1259 Lines: 34 On 03/02/2011 12:03 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 02 Mar 2011 10:15:14 -0800 > "H. Peter Anvin" wrote: > >> 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. >> > > I gave up and became a customer of > http://www.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/index_old.shtml Vegard, The source directory in the above doesn't seem to match the binary directories, and is stuck at binutils 2.16.1. At the very best this is iffy from a GPL perspective, and very confusing to users. This is obviously a highly useful project, can we straighten out the source situation? -hpa -- 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/