From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Vegard Nossum <vegard@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: x86: kill binutils 2.16.x?
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:11:31 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D6EA473.9000001@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110302120339.efd60504.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On 03/02/2011 12:03 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Mar 2011 10:15:14 -0800
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>
>> binutils 2.16 (and presumably its prereleases, binutils 2.15.9x) appears
>> to have more bugs than any other version of binutils released in modern
>> history, *before or after*.
>>
>> We chronically run into problems because that particular binutils
>> version breaks code that works fine elsewhere.
>>
>> I would like to know who would suffer from formally discontinuing
>> support for that version. I understand some version of SLES shipped it,
>> but I don't know for sure.
>>
>
> I gave up and became a customer of
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/index_old.shtml
Vegard,
The source directory in the above doesn't seem to match the binary
directories, and is stuck at binutils 2.16.1. At the very best this is
iffy from a GPL perspective, and very confusing to users.
This is obviously a highly useful project, can we straighten out the
source situation?
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-02 20:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-02 18:15 RFC: x86: kill binutils 2.16.x? H. Peter Anvin
2011-03-02 20:03 ` Andrew Morton
2011-03-02 20:11 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2011-03-02 20:25 ` Sam Ravnborg
2011-03-02 20:30 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-03-02 21:28 ` Vegard Nossum
2011-03-02 21:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-03-02 20:54 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-03-02 21:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-03-02 21:17 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-03-02 22:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-03-03 8:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-03-08 19:57 ` Kyle Moffett
2011-03-08 21:28 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-03-08 21:56 ` Scott Wood
2011-03-08 21:59 ` Kyle Moffett
2011-03-08 23:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-03-08 23:43 ` Kyle Moffett
2011-03-09 4:39 ` Segher Boessenkool
2011-03-10 8:50 ` Michal Marek
2011-03-10 8:59 ` Ingo Molnar
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