Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:18:52 -0700 | Subject | Re: Trying to make a working kernel with the gold linker | From | "H.J. Lu" <> |
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On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 08:28:56PM +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: >> >> Just compiling and installing a new binutils version should work fine. >> >> (But you should nonetheless consider to also upgrade gcc, because >> gcc-4.4 is ancient and not even officially maintained anymore...) > > Well *someone* has to still make sure the kernel compiles correctly on > the enterprise distro's that a huge number of Linux users use... > (including RHEL 6, Debian Stable, SLES 11, Ubuntu LTS 10.04, etc.) > > :-) > > But yeah, I hope to get off of Ubuntu LTS real soon now, and onto > something a bit more hip, such as Debian testing. > > - Ted
To build Linux kernel with gold, you should at least try gold in binutils 2.22.
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