From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752264AbaBXL5g (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Feb 2014 06:57:36 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:33883 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752042AbaBXL5f (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Feb 2014 06:57:35 -0500 Message-ID: <530B3398.5080308@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 03:57:12 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Beulich CC: davem@davemloft.net, Ingo Molnar , tglx@linutronix.de, dborkman@redhat.com, ffusco@redhat.com, tgraf@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86/hash: fix build failure with older binutils References: <53073962020000780011E2DE@nat28.tlf.novell.com> <68ae560f-8cf7-4083-816f-3fa78aed9a87@email.android.com> <53076DBC020000780011E552@nat28.tlf.novell.com> <5307A651.5030604@zytor.com> <530B0948020000780011E968@nat28.tlf.novell.com> In-Reply-To: <530B0948020000780011E968@nat28.tlf.novell.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 02/23/2014 11:56 PM, Jan Beulich wrote: > > 2.17 doesn't have support for it either, yet has support for fxsaveq > (which you can see in the patch context we check for too). Apart > from that Documentation/Changes continues to state binutils 2.12 > to be the minimum requirement... > Documentation/Changes (maybe) reflects the minimums across all architectures, which really has never applied to any single architecture for a long time. x86 requires gcc 3.4 at a minimum, for example, and it is not clear that that is sufficient anymore, either. We don't really have good documentation about what the requirements for various specific arches are... That being said, it sounds like this one is justified. -hpa