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authorChang S. Bae <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>2019-05-08 03:02:19 -0700
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2019-06-22 11:38:51 +0200
commit1fb12b35e5ffe379d109b22cb3069830d0136d9a (patch)
treebbd98ca5c058ab2b7c6a1920008d15a715f80cf9 /Documentation/process
parentb64ed19b93c368be0fb6acf05377e8e3a694c92b (diff)
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
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diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
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@@ -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
----------