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 g7KEuFEC029325 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 07:56:15 -0700 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.5/8.12.3/Submit) id g7KEuF70029324 for linux-mips-outgoing; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 07:56:15 -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 g7KEu1EC029311 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 07:56:06 -0700 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g7KEwZl24726; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 16:58:35 +0200 Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 16:58:35 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com, "Maciej W. Rozycki" Subject: Re: New binutils for kernel Message-ID: <20020820165835.B26852@linux-mips.org> References: <20020819171238.A7457@linux-mips.org> <20020820162959.A26852@linux-mips.org> <20020820145051.GA17311@nevyn.them.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: <20020820145051.GA17311@nevyn.them.org>; from dan@debian.org on Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 10:50:51AM -0400 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 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 ... Ralf