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 g7KEf5EC028292 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 07:41:05 -0700 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.5/8.12.3/Submit) id g7KEf4Qg028291 for linux-mips-outgoing; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 07:41:04 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: oss.sgi.com: majordomo set sender to owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com using -f Received: from dea.linux-mips.net (shaft16-f39.dialo.tiscali.de [62.246.16.39]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with SMTP id g7KEesEC028282 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 07:40:58 -0700 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g7KETxC31273; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 16:29:59 +0200 Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 16:29:59 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle To: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Subject: New binutils for kernel Message-ID: <20020820162959.A26852@linux-mips.org> References: <20020819171238.A7457@linux-mips.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl on Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 04:19:35PM +0200 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 04:19:35PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Ralf Baechle wrote: > > > > Are you sure? I believe the patch effectively forces everyone to use > > > binutils 2.13 for mips64. Is it really acceptable now? > > > > In the past week I ended up more and more kludging around binutils bugs. > > We need something newer and distributions seem to be all at ~ 2.12 at least. > > While 2.12 may be OK from the file format point of view, there are > serious bugs leading to bad code. So bad the kernel doesn't work. It's > really 2.13 that is needed. I have another less important fix that will > hopefully go in to 2.13.1 and all gcc versions are broken without yet > another fix (it bites in mm/mmap.c; not sure if fatally). > > > So I guess it's time to bite the bullet? > > Since I'm using 2.13 anyway, it's alike to me. But it should be > discussed at the list, IMO. Yep. It won't hurt most of us kernel hackers very much but in particular the distribution people may want to comment. So any comments? Ralf