From: Chang S. Bae Date: Wed, 8 May 2019 10:02:19 +0000 (-0700) Subject: kbuild: Raise the minimum required binutils version to 2.21 X-Git-Tag: v5.3-rc1~207^2~30 X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1fb12b35e5ff;p=linux.git 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 Signed-off-by: Chang S. Bae Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen Acked-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Ravi Shankar Cc: Linux Torvalds Cc: H. Peter Anvin Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1557309753-24073-5-git-send-email-chang.seok.bae@intel.com --- 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 ----------