Messages in this thread | | | From | Nick Desaulniers <> | Date | Tue, 30 Aug 2022 14:23:03 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] Documentation: raise minimum supported version of binutils to 2.25.1 |
| |
On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 12:10 PM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> wrote: > > Binutils 2.23 was released in 2012. Almost 10 years old. > > We already require GCC 5.1, which was released in 2015. > > Bump the binutils version to 2.25.1, which was also released in 2015. > > Suggested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> > --- > > Documentation/process/changes.rst | 4 ++--
This document has also been translated into Italian. Let's keep them in sync? Documentation/translations/it_IT/process/changes.rst
Either way. Acked-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
grepping for binutils shows lots of potentially stale references to even older versions of binutils. There may be more cleanups lurking than just the ppc ld-ifversion check.
> scripts/min-tool-version.sh | 2 +- > 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst > index 19c286c23786..5fb6a60677ef 100644 > --- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst > +++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst > @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ GNU C 5.1 gcc --version > Clang/LLVM (optional) 11.0.0 clang --version > GNU make 3.81 make --version > bash 4.2 bash --version > -binutils 2.23 ld -v > +binutils 2.25.1 ld -v > flex 2.5.35 flex --version > bison 2.0 bison --version > pahole 1.16 pahole --version > @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ Bash 4.2 or newer is needed. > Binutils > -------- > > -Binutils 2.23 or newer is needed to build the kernel. > +Binutils 2.25.1 or newer is needed to build the kernel. > > pkg-config > ---------- > diff --git a/scripts/min-tool-version.sh b/scripts/min-tool-version.sh > index 250925aab101..8b1edd1f7281 100755 > --- a/scripts/min-tool-version.sh > +++ b/scripts/min-tool-version.sh > @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ fi > > case "$1" in > binutils) > - echo 2.23.0 > + echo 2.25.1 > ;; > gcc) > echo 5.1.0 > -- > 2.34.1 >
-- Thanks, ~Nick Desaulniers
| |