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SubjectRe: Trying to make a working kernel with the gold linker
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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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