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authorKyle Moffett <Kyle.D.Moffett@boeing.com>2011-11-07 13:30:43 +0000
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2011-11-17 16:26:07 +1100
commita9a8f77ac72d6dd3c92ea268291678836f77681c (patch)
tree5418164440e9897bbd68be6ee50aaf6334a00f42 /arch/powerpc
parent187b9f2aa769198daa7cf8054abb65a08b8d8b47 (diff)
powerpc: Remove buggy 9-year-old test for binutils < 2.12.1
Recent binutils refuses to assemble AltiVec opcodes when in e500/SPE mode, as some of those opcodes alias the "SPE" instructions. This triggers an ancient binutils version check even when building a kernel with CONFIG_ALTIVEC disabled. In theory, the check could be conditionalized on CONFIG_ALTIVEC, but in practice it has long outlived its utility. It is virtually impossible to find binutils older than 2.12.1 (released 2002) in the wild anymore. Even ancient RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 has binutils-2.14. To fix the kernel build when done natively on e500 systems with this new binutils, the test is simply removed. Signed-off-by: Kyle Moffett <Kyle.D.Moffett@boeing.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/Makefile6
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/Makefile
index 57af16edc192..70ba0c0a1223 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Makefile
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Makefile
@@ -255,12 +255,6 @@ checkbin:
echo 'disable kernel modules' ; \
false ; \
fi
- @if ! /bin/echo dssall | $(AS) -many -o $(TOUT) >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then \
- echo -n '*** ${VERSION}.${PATCHLEVEL} kernels no longer build ' ; \
- echo 'correctly with old versions of binutils.' ; \
- echo '*** Please upgrade your binutils to 2.12.1 or newer' ; \
- false ; \
- fi
CLEAN_FILES += $(TOUT)