Re: new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1

Pavel Machek
2013-09-28T08:43:32Z

Hi!

> >Given you're not upgrading your binutils anymore that means
> >you'll have to apply that patch only once instead of having to
> >apply it
> >to every kernel upgrade.
>
> Indeed. Patching my own toolchain isn't really a problem. My
> objection was to the Documentation patch telling the world at large
> that for all targets, older binutils aren't supported even on x86.
> That was worth pushing back against.
>
> I don't indend to use old gcc/binutils versions forever, I just want
> to be able to use them until I can replace them with llvm or
> similar.

So, what is the proposal? Just ignore the problem and make people
wonder why their arm kernels are not compiling?
Pavel
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