From: "Måns Rullgård" <mans@mansr.com>
To: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
Trivial patch monkey <trivial@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
"linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-omap\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-omap@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-arm-kernel\@lists.infradead.org"
<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
Catalin Marinas <Catalin.Marinas@arm.com>
Subject: Re: new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 13:11:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yw1xpprywhad.fsf@unicorn.mansr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1379988800.1974.68@driftwood> (Rob Landley's message of "Mon, 23 Sep 2013 21:13:20 -0500")
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?
--
Måns Rullgård
mans@mansr.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-24 12:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-19 9:30 3.12-rc1: no longer compiles for Nokia n900 (omap based) Pavel Machek
2013-09-19 9:36 ` Will Deacon
2013-09-19 9:57 ` Pavel Machek
2013-09-23 23:59 ` new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1 Pavel Machek
2013-09-24 2:13 ` Rob Landley
2013-09-24 12:11 ` Måns Rullgård [this message]
2013-09-24 21:23 ` Rob Landley
2013-09-24 21:48 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-09-25 1:13 ` Rob Landley
2013-09-25 2:07 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-09-25 15:23 ` Rob Landley
2013-09-25 15:52 ` Måns Rullgård
2013-09-26 0:10 ` Rob Landley
2013-09-26 22:24 ` Måns Rullgård
2013-09-25 16:13 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-09-26 22:48 ` Rob Landley
2013-09-27 19:41 ` Pavel Machek
2013-09-28 8:43 ` Pavel Machek
2013-09-25 20:44 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-09-25 20:49 ` Måns Rullgård
2013-09-26 22:50 ` Rob Landley
2013-09-26 7:18 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-09-28 9:03 ` richard -rw- weinberger
2013-09-24 2:20 ` Rob Landley
2013-09-19 9:44 ` 3.12-rc1: no longer compiles for Nokia n900 (omap based), display no longer works Pavel Machek
2013-09-19 18:47 ` Aaro Koskinen
2013-09-26 0:23 ` Pavel Machek
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