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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

  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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