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 fBDNLle06936 for linux-mips-outgoing; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 15:21:47 -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 fBDNLio06930 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 15:21:44 -0800 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16EeEU-0002U6-00; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 17:21:38 -0500 Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 17:21:38 -0500 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Thiemo Seufer Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: .section problems in entry.S Message-ID: <20011213172138.A9495@nevyn.them.org> References: <20011209221835.A11737@dea.linux-mips.net> <20011213184541.A7171@dea.linux-mips.net> <20011213221254.G487@rembrandt.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> <20011213162752.A6983@nevyn.them.org> <20011213231359.I487@rembrandt.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011213231359.I487@rembrandt.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 11:13:59PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 10:12:54PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > > Ralf Baechle wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > > 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? > > > > > > AFAIK it is to be done in parallel to the GCC schedule: > > > 2001-12-15 Functionality freeze. > > > 2002-02-15 Branch for gcc 3.1 and binutils 2.12. > > > 2002-04-15 Release. > > > > Where did you get this information from? > > The schedule for GCC can be found at http://gcc.gnu.org/develop.html . > For the last binutils release there was some connection to the GCC > schedule. I _assume_ the next release will be done in a similiar way > due to the dependencies between both projects. Actually, as far as I know there's never been a coupling between GCC and binutils releases. I'm going to try to get 2.12 out before GCC 3.1, though. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer