Re: new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1

Måns Rullgård
2013-09-24T12:11:45Z

Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> writes:

> 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?

I seriously doubt that 2.12 still works at all (I doubt it can even be
built on a modern system). In my experience, binutils older than 2.19
or so rarely works properly for ARM.

What value is there in maintaining compatibility with a truly ancient
binutils version anyway?

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