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On Wed, 08 Nov 2006 09:14:50 +0200 Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> wrote: > Roland Dreier wrote: > > > That's gas 2.16.1. I assume it needs some super-new binutils. > > > > > > I'm not sure what to do about this. What's the minimum version? > > > > According to http://kvm.sourceforge.net/howto.html : > > A recent enough binutils (>= 2.16.91.0.2) for vmx instruction support > > > > Either that or a bunch of ugly .byte macros. > I think we could live with the binutils requirement as long as we can find some automagic way of not breaking people's `make allmodconfig'. Because quite a lot of those people who do cross-compilation tend to use older binutilses. But I don't know how to do that. We _could_ do a trick similar to the `cc-version' make rule, and then use the new `as-version' to make the whole kvm.o compile down to an empty .o file. But that's pretty hacky. Would really prefer something at Kconfig-time, but we have no way of letting the assembler version feed into the Kconfig system (nor do we want it, I suspect). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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