Messages in this thread | | | From | Måns Rullgård <> | Subject | Re: new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1 | Date | Tue, 24 Sep 2013 13:11:38 +0100 |
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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?
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