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From: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
To: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>, Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: alexey@au1.ibm.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, ellerman@au1.ibm.com
Subject: Re: PowerPC64 future proof kernel toc, revised for lld
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2021 13:44:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <df863fb6-2fd6-00d7-b6f3-94a49c2a5405@csgroup.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210310122513.GB29645@bubble.grove.modra.org>



Le 10/03/2021 à 13:25, Alan Modra a écrit :
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 08:33:37PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>> One more question - the older version had a construct "DEFINED (.TOC.) ?
>> .TOC. : ..." in case .TOC. is not defined (too old ld? too old gcc?) but the
>> newer patch seems assuming it is always defined, when was it added? I have
>> the same check in SLOF, for example, do I still need it?
> 
> .TOC. symbol support was first added 2012-11-06, so you need
> binutils-2.24 or later to use .TOC. as a symbol.
> 

As of today, minimum requirement to build kernel is binutils 2.23, see 
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/changes.html#current-minimal-requirements

Christophe

  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-10 12:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-09  4:56 PowerPC64 future proof kernel toc, revised Alan Modra
2021-03-10  3:48 ` PowerPC64 future proof kernel toc, revised for lld Alan Modra
2021-03-10  4:44   ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2021-03-10  5:07     ` Alan Modra
2021-03-10  9:33       ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2021-03-10 12:25         ` Alan Modra
2021-03-10 12:44           ` Christophe Leroy [this message]
2021-03-10 16:17             ` Segher Boessenkool
2021-03-10 23:41             ` Alan Modra
2021-03-11 23:32               ` Michael Ellerman
2021-03-12  3:45                 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy

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