On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 6:15 PM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > arch/x86/Makefile tests instruction code by $(call as-instr, ...) > > Some of them are very old. > For example, the check for CONFIG_AS_CFI dates back to 2006. > > We raise GCC versions from time to time, and we clean old code away. > The same policy applied to binutils. > > The current minimal supported version of binutils is 2.21 > > This is new enough to recognize the instruction in most of > as-instr calls. > > If this series looks good, how to merge it? > Via x86 tree or maybe crypto ? This series looks fine, but why is it still incomplete? That is, it's missing your drm commit plus the 4 I layered on top for moving to a Kconfig-based approach and accounting for the bump to binutils 2.23. Everything is now rebased here: https://git.zx2c4.com/linux-dev/log/?h=jd/kconfig-assembler-support Would you be up for resubmitting those all together so we can handle this in one go? Jason
