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| author | Chang S. Bae <chang.seok.bae@intel.com> | 2019-05-08 03:02:19 -0700 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2019-06-22 11:38:51 +0200 |
| commit | 1fb12b35e5ffe379d109b22cb3069830d0136d9a (patch) | |
| tree | bbd98ca5c058ab2b7c6a1920008d15a715f80cf9 /Documentation/process | |
| parent | b64ed19b93c368be0fb6acf05377e8e3a694c92b (diff) | |
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kbuild: Raise the minimum required binutils version to 2.21
It helps to use some new instructions directly in assembly code.
Suggested-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chang S. Bae <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Ravi Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>
Cc: Linux Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1557309753-24073-5-git-send-email-chang.seok.bae@intel.com
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/process')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/process/changes.rst | 6 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst index 18735dc460a0..0a18075c485e 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ you probably needn't concern yourself with isdn4k-utils. ====================== =============== ======================================== GNU C 4.6 gcc --version GNU make 3.81 make --version -binutils 2.20 ld -v +binutils 2.21 ld -v flex 2.5.35 flex --version bison 2.0 bison --version util-linux 2.10o fdformat --version @@ -77,9 +77,7 @@ You will need GNU make 3.81 or later to build the kernel. Binutils -------- -The build system has, as of 4.13, switched to using thin archives (`ar T`) -rather than incremental linking (`ld -r`) for built-in.a intermediate steps. -This requires binutils 2.20 or newer. +Binutils 2.21 or newer is needed to build the kernel. pkg-config ---------- |