On Thursday 18 October 2007 16:12, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > I always reserve the right to change my mind. If something makes sense > > and the code is decent enough then it might very well be acceptable. > > Requiring a modified binutils makes me a bit nervous though. > > From a kernel point of view, I totally don't care about the modified > binutils to build userspace as long as it's not required to build the > kernel and that option is not enabled by default (and explicitely > documented as having that requirement). > > If it is necessary for building the kernel, then I'm a bit cooler about > the whole thing indeed, the max page size needs to be added at least as > a command line or linker script param so a different build of binutils > isn't needed.
No, 256K-page-sized kernel is being built using the standard binutils. Modifications to them are necessary for user-space applications only. And the libraries as well. -- Yuri Tikhonov, Senior Software Engineer Emcraft Systems, www.emcraft.com _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev