| Message ID | 1320708643-32631-1-git-send-email-Kyle.D.Moffett@boeing.com (mailing list archive) |
|---|---|
| State | Accepted, archived |
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diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/Makefile index 57af16e..70ba0c0 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)
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> --- arch/powerpc/Makefile | 6 ------ 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)