Re: [1/2] 2.6.23-rc3: known regressions with patches

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 10:56:53PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 10:24:52PM +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote:
> > On 13/08/07, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> > > > Unclassified
> > > >
> > > > Subject         : reset during bootup - 2.6.23-rc2 (git d23cf676)
> > >
> > > This is already fixed in mainline
> > 
> > commit b8d3f2448b8f4ba24f301e23585547ba1acc1f04
> > 
> > >
> > > There is a real regression with failing builds on some old binutils on
> > > x86-64 know, but I don't know how to fix it.
> > 
> > Did you mean this?
> 
> Yes. Anyways it be likely a WONT-FIX -- aka document newer binutils
> version required. We haven't had any other reports so likely
> that version is not too widely used.

IOW: Either the Linux binutils >= 2.17.50.0.3 or the not yet released 
GNU binutils 2.18 are now required.

Debian 4.0 has older ones, and all distributions released more than a 
year ago for sure also have older ones (the required patch went into 
binutils CVS on 2006-05-30 and 2.17.50.0.3 was released on 2006-07-15).

Isn't that a bit too recent?

> -Andi

cu
Adrian

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