From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: New binutils for kernel
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 11:11:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020820151135.GA23807@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1020820170025.8700L-100000@delta.ds2.pg.gda.pl>
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 05:08:20PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Ralf Baechle wrote:
>
> > > 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 ...
>
> Any version since 2.11, possibly older, should work just fine for 32-bit
> MIPS. I don't think there are any significant interface changes between
> 2.11 and 2.13, so if 2.13 works then 2.11 will not bail out either. Thus
> there is no need to force 2.13 for 32-bit MIPS, but I think it is
> acceptable to stop caring about versions older than 2.11 in the nearby
> future.
Sure.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-20 15:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <Pine.GSO.3.96.1020820161204.8700H-100000@delta.ds2.pg.gda.pl>
2002-08-20 14:29 ` New binutils for kernel Ralf Baechle
2002-08-20 14:50 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-08-20 14:58 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-08-20 15:02 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-08-20 15:08 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-08-20 15:11 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2002-08-20 15:17 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-08-20 15:10 ` H. J. Lu
2002-08-20 17:27 ` Karsten Merker
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