On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 04:19:35PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Ralf Baechle wrote:
>
> > > Are you sure? I believe the patch effectively forces everyone to use
> > > binutils 2.13 for mips64. Is it really acceptable now?
> >
> > In the past week I ended up more and more kludging around binutils bugs.
> > We need something newer and distributions seem to be all at ~ 2.12 at least.
>
> While 2.12 may be OK from the file format point of view, there are
> serious bugs leading to bad code. So bad the kernel doesn't work. It's
> really 2.13 that is needed. I have another less important fix that will
> hopefully go in to 2.13.1 and all gcc versions are broken without yet
> another fix (it bites in mm/mmap.c; not sure if fatally).
>
> > So I guess it's time to bite the bullet?
>
> Since I'm using 2.13 anyway, it's alike to me. But it should be
> discussed at the list, IMO.
Yep. It won't hurt most of us kernel hackers very much but in particular
the distribution people may want to comment.
So any comments?
Ralf
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