On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 12:54 PM Chang S. Bae <[email protected]> wrote: > > It helps to use some new instructions directly in inline assembly.
akpm, can you ack this patch? AFAIK you are the only, or at least most vocal, user of ancient userspace to build new kernels. Are you okay with this? > > Suggested-by: Andi Kleen <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Chang S. Bae <[email protected]> > Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> > Cc: Linux Torvalds <[email protected]> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> > Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> > --- > 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 18735dc460a0..0a18075c485e 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 > ---------- > -- > 2.19.1 >
