Re: New binutils for kernel

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On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 05:08:20PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> 
> > > Well, I think 2.13's a good idea, but it's very new.  I'd say that was
> > > acceptable as long as you're looking at MIPS64 only, not at MIPS32. 
> > 
> > Such considerations have kept us back at antique levels of binutils.  And
> > juggling with several different versions for userland, and two kernel
> > flavours is evil ...
> 
>  Any version since 2.11, possibly older, should work just fine for 32-bit
> MIPS.  I don't think there are any significant interface changes between
> 2.11 and 2.13, so if 2.13 works then 2.11 will not bail out either.  Thus
> there is no need to force 2.13 for 32-bit MIPS, but I think it is
> acceptable to stop caring about versions older than 2.11 in the nearby
> future.

Sure.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer


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