On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 11:19 AM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 Thanks for the patch! Indeed, it looks like 2.25 is from 2014. https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/ Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> > > 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 > -- Thanks, ~Nick Desaulniers
