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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx•de>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb•auug.org.au>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org, robert.karl.berger@gmail•com,
	"Frank Svendsbøe" <frank.svendsboe@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: kilauea compilation breaks with v3.3 kernel and ELDK 4.2
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:44:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120405174404.A4086200240@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120405100228.9ca940aa4739e81540bb2a6f@canb.auug.org.au>

Dear Stephen Rothwell,

In message <20120405100228.9ca940aa4739e81540bb2a6f@canb•auug.org.au> you wrote:
>
> > ELDK 4.2 is based on gcc version 4.2.2 / binutils version 2.17.50.0.12
> > 20070128.  This is obviously to old for this code.  I do not see an
> > actual problem with that - nobody can expect that we support old tol
> > chain versions forever.
> 
> The requirements are documented in Documentation/Changes where we say we
> need gcc 3.2 and binutils 2.12.  Not that that is very relevant to this
> discussion. ;-)

Indeed. I doubt you can build any working PPC kernel with these old
tools.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-05 17:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-21 12:10 kilauea compilation breaks with v3.3 kernel and ELDK 4.2 Robert Berger
2012-03-21 13:29 ` Josh Boyer
2012-03-21 16:25   ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-03-24 23:53     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-03-26 13:36       ` Josh Boyer
2012-03-30 22:53         ` Frank Svendsbøe
2012-03-31  0:03           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-04-01 22:14             ` Frank E. Svendsbøe
2012-04-02  2:01               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-04-02  6:28                 ` Tony Breeds
2012-04-02  8:37                   ` Frank E. Svendsbøe
2012-05-06 14:37                   ` Robert Berger
2012-05-17 14:37                     ` Frank Svendsbøe
2012-04-02 12:10             ` Josh Boyer
2012-04-02 21:08               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-04-02 21:26                 ` Josh Boyer
2012-04-04 19:21               ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-04-05  0:02                 ` Stephen Rothwell
2012-04-05 17:44                   ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2012-03-21 22:14 ` Tony Breeds
2012-03-21 22:34   ` Wolfgang Denk

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