From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rob Landley Subject: Re: new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1 Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 21:13:20 -0500 Message-ID: <1379988800.1974.68@driftwood> References: <20130923235917.GA30967@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; DelSp=Yes; Format=Flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Return-path: Received: from mail-ob0-f175.google.com ([209.85.214.175]:35242 "EHLO mail-ob0-f175.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752503Ab3IXCNY convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Sep 2013 22:13:24 -0400 Received: by mail-ob0-f175.google.com with SMTP id uz6so4273303obc.6 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2013 19:13:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20130923235917.GA30967@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> (from pavel@ucw.cz on Mon Sep 23 18:59:17 2013) Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-omap-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org To: Pavel Machek Cc: Will Deacon , Trivial patch monkey , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , Catalin Marinas On 09/23/2013 06:59:17 PM, Pavel Machek wrote: > During 3.12-rc, Will Deacon introduced code into arch/arm that > requires binutils 2.22. Um, my toolchain is using the last gplv2 snapshot of binutils out of git, which is just past 2.17 and can build armv7 (but not armv8). Binutils 2.12->2.22 is quite the jump. (11 years.) I'd except some thought to have gone into that? Possibly a mention of it? > diff --git a/Documentation/Changes b/Documentation/Changes > index b175808..0f8deaf 100644 > --- a/Documentation/Changes > +++ b/Documentation/Changes > @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ you probably needn't concern yourself with > isdn4k-utils. > > o Gnu C 3.2 # gcc --version > o Gnu make 3.80 # make --version > -o binutils 2.12 # ld -v > +o binutils 2.22 # ld -v When the sh4 platform did this, I just reverted the patch. (It still reverts cleanly ~4 years later, and builds with my old tool versions...) Rob