From: rob@landley.net (Rob Landley)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 19:10:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1380154255.1974.92@driftwood> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yw1x7ge4x5ir.fsf@unicorn.mansr.com> (from mans@mansr.com on Wed Sep 25 10:52:44 2013)
On 09/25/2013 10:52:44 AM, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> writes:
>
> > On 09/24/2013 09:07:57 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> >> I'd strongly suggest you make your binutils compatible with newer
> >> instruction syntax instead of making the kernel more complex.
> >
> > Meaning I play whack-a-mole as this becomes permission to depend on
> > endless new gnuisms just because they're there and nobody else is
> > regression testing against them, not because they actually add
> anything.
>
> Since when is assembling the instructions correctly, as specified in
> the
> arch ref, and not in some other random way a gnuism?
If you require current gnome and drop support for older versions (and
implicitly all other desktops), people start writing stuff that depends
on systemd. It doesn't matter if the feature you abandoned support for
the past 10 years of everthing else for wasn't itself provided by
systemd.
Rob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-26 0:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-19 9:30 3.12-rc1: no longer compiles for Nokia n900 (omap based) Pavel Machek
2013-09-19 9:36 ` Will Deacon
2013-09-19 9:57 ` Pavel Machek
[not found] ` <20130923235917.GA30967@amd.pavel.ucw.cz>
2013-09-24 2:13 ` new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1 Rob Landley
2013-09-24 12:11 ` Måns Rullgård
2013-09-24 21:23 ` Rob Landley
2013-09-24 21:48 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-09-25 1:13 ` Rob Landley
2013-09-25 2:07 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-09-25 15:23 ` Rob Landley
2013-09-25 15:52 ` Måns Rullgård
2013-09-26 0:10 ` Rob Landley [this message]
2013-09-26 22:24 ` Måns Rullgård
2013-09-25 16:13 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-09-26 22:48 ` Rob Landley
2013-09-27 19:41 ` Pavel Machek
2013-09-28 8:43 ` Pavel Machek
2013-09-25 20:44 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-09-25 20:49 ` Måns Rullgård
2013-09-26 22:50 ` Rob Landley
2013-09-26 7:18 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-09-28 9:03 ` richard -rw- weinberger
2013-09-26 17:00 ` Ben Dooks
2013-09-30 11:27 ` Dave Martin
2013-09-24 2:20 ` Rob Landley
2013-09-19 9:44 ` 3.12-rc1: no longer compiles for Nokia n900 (omap based), display no longer works Pavel Machek
2013-09-19 18:47 ` Aaro Koskinen
2013-09-26 0:23 ` Pavel Machek
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