From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760935Ab2DKTSz (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:18:55 -0400 Received: from mail-qa0-f42.google.com ([209.85.216.42]:56251 "EHLO mail-qa0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756034Ab2DKTSx convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:18:53 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20120411191325.GL12044@thunk.org> References: <20120411045107.GA324@x4> <20120411180520.GE12044@thunk.org> <20120411182856.GA327@x4> <20120411191325.GL12044@thunk.org> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:18:52 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Trying to make a working kernel with the gold linker From: "H.J. Lu" To: "Ted Ts'o" , Markus Trippelsdorf , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hjl.tools@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Ted Ts'o wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 08:28:56PM +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: >> >> Just compiling and installing a new binutils version should work fine. >> >> (But you should nonetheless consider to also upgrade gcc, because >> gcc-4.4 is ancient and not even officially maintained anymore...) > > Well *someone* has to still make sure the kernel compiles correctly on > the enterprise distro's that a huge number of Linux users use... > (including RHEL 6, Debian Stable, SLES 11, Ubuntu LTS 10.04, etc.) > > :-) > > But yeah, I hope to get off of Ubuntu LTS real soon now, and onto > something a bit more hip, such as Debian testing. > >                                                - Ted To build Linux kernel with gold, you should at least try gold in binutils 2.22. -- H.J.