From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: mans@mansr.com (=?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?=) Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 13:11:38 +0100 Subject: new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1 In-Reply-To: <1379988800.1974.68@driftwood> (Rob Landley's message of "Mon, 23 Sep 2013 21:13:20 -0500") References: <20130923235917.GA30967@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> <1379988800.1974.68@driftwood> Message-ID: To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Rob Landley writes: > On 09/23/2013 06:59:17 PM, Pavel Machek wrote: >> During 3.12-rc, Will Deacon introduced code into arch/arm that >> requires binutils 2.22. > > Um, my toolchain is using the last gplv2 snapshot of binutils out of > git, which is just past 2.17 and can build armv7 (but not armv8). > > Binutils 2.12->2.22 is quite the jump. (11 years.) I'd except some > thought to have gone into that? Possibly a mention of it? I seriously doubt that 2.12 still works at all (I doubt it can even be built on a modern system). In my experience, binutils older than 2.19 or so rarely works properly for ARM. What value is there in maintaining compatibility with a truly ancient binutils version anyway? -- M?ns Rullg?rd mans at mansr.com