From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from oss.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7KEwcEC029473 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 07:58:38 -0700 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.5/8.12.3/Submit) id g7KEwcaM029472 for linux-mips-outgoing; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 07:58:38 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: oss.sgi.com: majordomo set sender to owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com using -f Received: from crack.them.org (mail@crack.them.org [65.125.64.184]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with SMTP id g7KEwXEC029460 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 07:58:34 -0700 Received: from nevyn.them.org ([66.93.61.169] ident=mail) by crack.them.org with asmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17hAVd-0005LG-00; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 10:01:29 -0500 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17hAWD-00071q-00; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 11:02:05 -0400 Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 11:02:05 -0400 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Ralf Baechle Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com, "Maciej W. Rozycki" Subject: Re: New binutils for kernel Message-ID: <20020820150204.GA16542@nevyn.them.org> References: <20020819171238.A7457@linux-mips.org> <20020820162959.A26852@linux-mips.org> <20020820145051.GA17311@nevyn.them.org> <20020820165835.B26852@linux-mips.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020820165835.B26852@linux-mips.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO version=2.20 X-Spam-Level: Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 04:58:35PM +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 10:50:51AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > > > So any comments? > > > > Well, I think 2.13's a good idea, but it's very new. I'd say that was > > acceptable as long as you're looking at MIPS64 only, not at MIPS32. > > Such considerations have kept us back at antique levels of binutils. And > juggling with several different versions for userland, and two kernel > flavours is evil ... Please keep in mind that 2.13's been out for all of half a month now. Almost no one's using it yet for significant development... if you decide to require it, we can cope, though. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer