From 1fb12b35e5ffe379d109b22cb3069830d0136d9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Chang S. Bae" <chang.seok.bae@intel.com> Date: Wed, 8 May 2019 03:02:19 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] 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 --- Documentation/process/changes.rst | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst index 18735dc460a0f..0a18075c485e4 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 ---------- -- GitLab