Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757648Ab1CBV3u (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2011 16:29:50 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:57854 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754281Ab1CBV3t (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Mar 2011 16:29:49 -0500 Message-ID: <4D6EB6A8.6090808@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 13:29:12 -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: Vegard Nossum CC: Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Tony Breeds Subject: Re: RFC: x86: kill binutils 2.16.x? References: <4D6E8932.1010405@zytor.com> <20110302120339.efd60504.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4D6EA473.9000001@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: 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: 1900 Lines: 53 On 03/02/2011 01:28 PM, Vegard Nossum wrote: > On 2 March 2011 21:11, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> 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? > > I only uploaded the binaries in > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/files/bin/old/ > > which should match the sources in > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/files/src/ > > The binaries outside old/ are not made by me, but Tony (added to Cc). > > I assume you're talking about the binaries _outside_ bin/old/, but let > me know if I'm mistaken :-) > Sorry, you're right... I got confused because the index file is still the old one... -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/