On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 04:28:16PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 16:28:16 -0500 > From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> > To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com> > Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>, > Kip Walker <kwalker@broadcom.com>, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com > Subject: Re: .section problems in entry.S > > On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 06:45:42PM -0200, Ralf Baechle wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 05:03:41PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > > > > > Certainly not. The problem is known and so far I've just hacked around > > > > it more or less elegant. But it's a trap and so I think we've got good > > > > reasons to force people to upgrade to a newer assembler than the current > > > > minimal version. The question is which - I don't like frequent tool > > > > upgrades. > > > > > > There are no working released binutils for a modern MIPS/Linux system, > > > AFAIK. However, version 2.11.92 from the CVS seems to work reasonably > > > well now, so chances are the next release will do as well. Maybe 2.12 > > > will be a good candidate then, once it is released and tested a bit. > > > > What is the schedule for 2.12? > > There isn't one yet; I'm hoping within three months. I'm going to try > to roll the ball a little this week. Longer than I'd like to see. Anybody got a sufficiently hacked version of ~ 2.11? Ralf
