Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Sep 2013 21:41:32 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1 |
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Hi!
On Thu 2013-09-26 17:48:29, Rob Landley wrote: > On 09/25/2013 11:13:17 AM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > >On Wed, 25 Sep 2013, Rob Landley wrote: > > > >> On 09/24/2013 09:07:57 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > >> > I'd strongly suggest you make your binutils compatible with newer > >> > instruction syntax instead of making the kernel more complex. > >> > >> Meaning I play whack-a-mole as this becomes permission to depend > >on endless > >> new gnuisms just because they're there and nobody else is > >regression testing > >> against them, not because they actually add anything. > > > >Gnuism? > > > >Let me quote the ARM ARchitecture Reference Manual, version 7 > >revision C, > >section A8.8.44 (sorry for the whitespace dammage): > > Globally changing the binutils requirement for all architectures, as > the doc patch at the start of this thread proposed doing, would mean > gnuisms in common code (ext2 and such) wouldn't get caught, giving > llvm and pcc and such a moving target when trying to build the > kernel with non-gnu toolchains. That's what I meant by gnuisms > breeding.
Well. I did the docs patch, but my preferred solution would actually be to get the patches reverted so that it still works with old binutils.
(So far, I updated one machine with new cross environment, two more to go.)
Anyway, it should be solved _somehow_. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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