From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id fBDMSVc04330 for linux-mips-outgoing; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 14:28:31 -0800 Received: from nevyn.them.org (mail@NEVYN.RES.CMU.EDU [128.2.145.6]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id fBDMSGo04323; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 14:28:16 -0800 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16EdOq-0001p6-00; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 16:28:16 -0500 Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 16:28:16 -0500 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Ralf Baechle Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" , Kip Walker , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: .section problems in entry.S Message-ID: <20011213162816.B6983@nevyn.them.org> References: <20011209221835.A11737@dea.linux-mips.net> <20011213184541.A7171@dea.linux-mips.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011213184541.A7171@dea.linux-mips.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 06:45:42PM -0200, Ralf Baechle wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 05:03:41PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > > > Certainly not. The problem is known and so far I've just hacked around > > > it more or less elegant. But it's a trap and so I think we've got good > > > reasons to force people to upgrade to a newer assembler than the current > > > minimal version. The question is which - I don't like frequent tool > > > upgrades. > > > > There are no working released binutils for a modern MIPS/Linux system, > > AFAIK. However, version 2.11.92 from the CVS seems to work reasonably > > well now, so chances are the next release will do as well. Maybe 2.12 > > will be a good candidate then, once it is released and tested a bit. > > What is the schedule for 2.12? There isn't one yet; I'm hoping within three months. I'm going to try to roll the ball a little this week. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer