From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Subject: Re: new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1 Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 23:24:07 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1380154255.1974.92@driftwood> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from unicorn.mansr.com ([81.2.72.234]:40936 "EHLO unicorn.mansr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754164Ab3IZWYL convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Sep 2013 18:24:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1380154255.1974.92@driftwood> (Rob Landley's message of "Wed, 25 Sep 2013 19:10:55 -0500") Sender: linux-omap-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org To: Rob Landley Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= , Nicolas Pitre , Russell King - ARM Linux , Andrew Morton , Trivial patch monkey , Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Pavel Machek , "linux-omap@vger.kernel.org" , Linus Torvalds , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" Rob Landley writes: > On 09/25/2013 10:52:44 AM, M=E5ns Rullg=E5rd wrote: >> Rob Landley writes: >>=20 >> > On 09/24/2013 09:07:57 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: >> >> I'd strongly suggest you make your binutils compatible with newer >> >> instruction syntax instead of making the kernel more complex. >> > >> > Meaning I play whack-a-mole as this becomes permission to depend o= n >> > endless new gnuisms just because they're there and nobody else is >> > regression testing against them, not because they actually add =20 >> > anything. >>=20 >> Since when is assembling the instructions correctly, as specified in >> the arch ref, and not in some other random way a gnuism? > > If you require current gnome and drop support for older versions (and= =20 > implicitly all other desktops), people start writing stuff that depen= ds =20 > on systemd. It doesn't matter if the feature you abandoned support fo= r =20 > the past 10 years of everthing else for wasn't itself provided by =20 > systemd. Are you saying current binutils depends on gnome and/or systemd? --=20 M=E5ns Rullg=E5rd mans@mansr.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html