From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Sun, 08 Oct 2017 20:49:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-pf0-x243.google.com ([IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c00::243]:37971 "EHLO mail-pf0-x243.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by eddie.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S23992297AbdJHStaILGwr (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Oct 2017 20:49:30 +0200 Received: by mail-pf0-x243.google.com with SMTP id a7so22501318pfj.5 for ; Sun, 08 Oct 2017 11:49:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language:content-transfer-encoding; bh=L0dbKbbITTkOTPKloUHEG5A6WoUcPmUDyJaQBk0CNZ4=; b=htTyBDM4l9Oye/5ClIzVJjLCefpIY1PUndZ/6bLCRgCeoPCfI0+z6ao0XX7USh17M0 euLPzv63VtSdb1+e2ziHsjaVhC+wOPgCeL2ek6kQq8Q2yaqFycPKfQXZMnPQRGnWp9+d zyIw/vv99IVVqIfGMZy0rvmw6tMoESFUc65fZAy8/Krmlo+MRIOnuttFuoUHgqu6vdZc thXGb24ZIWu1a8Rn/Qelz9GscP+1A7cTXfsUZCNpQWHlK8sf6oS6wC/711Z12OBfNgh3 6NCLaXCDgBb/0tgekkuykIHFup34RrqeHTRlnn2luhwRZzpvUU8OgO0R9hQ4T4xBRZXK pPVg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id :date:user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=L0dbKbbITTkOTPKloUHEG5A6WoUcPmUDyJaQBk0CNZ4=; b=hK3OMXaX5Zl/NL7HHLz0pxCt215JAXLl4QKLEMpS8CHgDPlcImknYfTGkG0O0eS4rW 95bQkqS82nQqkaEL05T2yKNVOE6vjs3MT4RofCHMuX0m3WSYZYDbLQKgz+9PTT/1tHne x+N7OW6RzO00jbprZ455Pbzi3DvM4KaCcyuCASq72GmlX/HX+c/OBFxyoUFQp5OZCnQQ v2rxrsj62GW4cq/lGJCNSM7Yd6CHQhhzFAnzN1p7R2+EXXQkvsoDhLc/RYTf2zyd/SeX jRvzGNIXjyrMYzOpmRDEzxxJD4NM5W8Iw5zT+tcXBm61ydz/09o+WMLm579W8HkuVsKj zi4A== X-Gm-Message-State: AMCzsaVcxsXHEfHZGa5dwUSiCakCuqyRgSYJRr7mbjXJ+kyuounfjJjg XTYS3cEIn33kCfBo56f4CK8= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AOwi7QALvJTlubocXAHoCUTC4m5ODb0opIfDqZ3/2kbObSpRq+OKmwZ2TWoEYF6sb36PtlyqRwHpEA== X-Received: by 10.99.119.138 with SMTP id s132mr7229173pgc.399.1507488563303; Sun, 08 Oct 2017 11:49:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from server.roeck-us.net (108-223-40-66.lightspeed.sntcca.sbcglobal.net. [108.223.40.66]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id j12sm10865364pgc.6.2017.10.08.11.49.21 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 08 Oct 2017 11:49:22 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Building older mips kernels with different versions of binutils; possible patch for 3.2 and 3.4 To: Ben Hutchings , stable , Linux MIPS Mailing List , Li Zefan , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" References: <573936E3.3050003@roeck-us.net> <1507486329.2677.81.camel@decadent.org.uk> From: Guenter Roeck Message-ID: Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2017 11:49:18 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1507486329.2677.81.camel@decadent.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 60322 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: linux@roeck-us.net Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-software: Ecartis version 1.0.0 List-Id: linux-mips X-List-ID: linux-mips List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: List-archive: X-list: linux-mips On 10/08/2017 11:12 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2016-05-15 at 19:56 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > [...] >> For 3.4 and 3.2 kernels to build with binutils v2.24, it would be necessary to >> apply patch c02263063362 ("MIPS: Refactor 'clear_page' and 'copy_page' functions"). >> It applies cleanly to 3.4, but has a Makefile conflict in 3.2. It might >> make sense to apply this patch to both releases. Would this be possible ? >> This way, we would have at least one toolchain which can build all 3.2+ kernels. > > I'm finally queueing this up for 3.2. > > Ben. > mipsel images in 3.2.y-queue are now crashing for me. Should I have a look ? Guenter