Binutils 2.23 was released in 2012. Almost 10 years old. We already require GCC 5.1, released in 2015. Bump the binutils version to 2.25, which was released one year before GCC 5.1. With this applied, some subsystems can start to clean up code. Examples: arch/arm/Kconfig.assembler arch/mips/vdso/Kconfig arch/powerpc/Makefile arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/process/changes.rst | 4 ++-- 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 9844ca3a71a6..ef540865ad22 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Rust (optional) 1.62.0 rustc --version bindgen (optional) 0.56.0 bindgen --version GNU make 3.82 make --version bash 4.2 bash --version -binutils 2.23 ld -v +binutils 2.25 ld -v flex 2.5.35 flex --version bison 2.0 bison --version pahole 1.16 pahole --version @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ Bash 4.2 or newer is needed. Binutils -------- -Binutils 2.23 or newer is needed to build the kernel. +Binutils 2.25 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 8766e248ffbb..4e5b45d9b526 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 2.25.0 ;; gcc) echo 5.1.0 -- 2.34.1
