From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932991Ab2DKTNb (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:13:31 -0400 Received: from li9-11.members.linode.com ([67.18.176.11]:49273 "EHLO test.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932889Ab2DKTNa (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:13:30 -0400 Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:13:25 -0400 From: "Ted Ts'o" To: Markus Trippelsdorf Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hjl.tools@gmail.com Subject: Re: Trying to make a working kernel with the gold linker Message-ID: <20120411191325.GL12044@thunk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Ted Ts'o , Markus Trippelsdorf , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hjl.tools@gmail.com References: <20120411045107.GA324@x4> <20120411180520.GE12044@thunk.org> <20120411182856.GA327@x4> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120411182856.GA327@x4> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: tytso@thunk.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on test.thunk.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 08:28:56PM +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > > Just compiling and installing a new binutils version should work fine. > > (But you should nonetheless consider to also upgrade gcc, because > gcc-4.4 is ancient and not even officially maintained anymore...) Well *someone* has to still make sure the kernel compiles correctly on the enterprise distro's that a huge number of Linux users use... (including RHEL 6, Debian Stable, SLES 11, Ubuntu LTS 10.04, etc.) :-) But yeah, I hope to get off of Ubuntu LTS real soon now, and onto something a bit more hip, such as Debian testing. - Ted