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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Some x86, asm cleanups
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 11:19:44 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DE682C0.9060208@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <820d76c11c182f41dcbc652926e27d94.squirrel@www.skyhub.de>

On 06/01/2011 11:14 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>>
>> Any way you can try them out on the gas version from hell[TM], a.k.a.
>> 2.16?
> 
> I think by that you mean this guy:
> 
>  as --version
> GNU assembler 2.16.91.0.5 20051219 (SUSE Linux)
> Copyright 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
> the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no warranty.
> This assembler was configured for a target of `x86_64-suse-linux'.
> 
> at least this is one incarnation of it. I had to install SLES10 SP3
> with the unpatched binutils version in kvm to test. And yes, the kernel
> builds fine. Let me know if I should run some randconfigs, in addition.
> 
> Btw, I'm keeping the kvm image for future testing with the bat from hell :).
> 

I think 2.16.9x is really 2.17.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-01 18:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-31 20:21 [PATCH 0/4] Some x86, asm cleanups Borislav Petkov
2011-05-31 20:21 ` [PATCH 1/4] x86, asm: Thin down SAVE/RESTORE_* asm macros Borislav Petkov
2011-06-03 23:28   ` [tip:x86/asm] " tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
2011-05-31 20:21 ` [PATCH 2/4] x86, asm: Flip SAVE_ARGS arguments logic Borislav Petkov
2011-06-03 23:28   ` [tip:x86/asm] " tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
2011-05-31 20:21 ` [PATCH 3/4] x86, asm: Flip RESTORE_ARGS " Borislav Petkov
2011-06-03 23:29   ` [tip:x86/asm] " tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
2011-05-31 20:21 ` [PATCH 4/4] x86, asm: Cleanup thunk_64.S Borislav Petkov
2011-06-03 23:29   ` [tip:x86/asm] " tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
2011-06-01  2:06 ` [PATCH 0/4] Some x86, asm cleanups H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-01  6:48   ` Borislav Petkov
2011-06-01 18:14   ` Borislav Petkov
2011-06-01 18:19     ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2011-06-01 20:40       ` Borislav Petkov
2011-06-03 20:07 ` [PATCH 5/4] x86, asm: Fix another binutils 2.16 issue Borislav Petkov
2011-06-03 23:30   ` [tip:x86/asm] x86, asm: Fix binutils 2.16 issue with __USER32_CS tip-bot for Borislav Petkov

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