From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752823AbdJHSMd (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Oct 2017 14:12:33 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:59729 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751269AbdJHSMb (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Oct 2017 14:12:31 -0400 Message-ID: <1507486329.2677.81.camel@decadent.org.uk> Subject: Re: Building older mips kernels with different versions of binutils; possible patch for 3.2 and 3.4 From: Ben Hutchings To: Guenter Roeck , stable , Linux MIPS Mailing List , Li Zefan , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2017 19:12:09 +0100 In-Reply-To: <573936E3.3050003@roeck-us.net> References: <573936E3.3050003@roeck-us.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha512"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-H9IjW9ISzbg7+2/mgQnr" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.26.0-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2a02:8011:400e:2:6f00:88c8:c921:d332 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-H9IjW9ISzbg7+2/mgQnr Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2016-05-15 at 19:56 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: [...] > For 3.4 and 3.2 kernels to build with binutils v2.24, it would be necessa= ry to > apply patch c02263063362 ("MIPS: Refactor 'clear_page' and 'copy_page' fu= nctions"). > It applies cleanly to 3.4, but has a Makefile conflict in 3.2. It might > make sense to apply this patch to both releases. Would this be possible ? > This way, we would have at least one toolchain which can build all 3.2+ k= ernels. I'm finally queueing this up for 3.2. Ben. --=20 Ben Hutchings compatible: Gracefully accepts erroneous data from any source --=-H9IjW9ISzbg7+2/mgQnr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCgAdFiEErCspvTSmr92z9o8157/I7JWGEQkFAlnaankACgkQ57/I7JWG EQkrgw//QsAb46hDvO6uu8EtWEYNt+KgxKph8lQx7jbCxrqJcmlHJwYm5a+cAXY2 xa33lljJ0Wk5OpBz90WUxsZlzDW1p3t2KRLUKgDJ3BWSwReEYLSWPIFiVj2OUZZ8 HQIi2fPL1bn9qzJC1GUkb1MFn05pns3KksOndhz8XHaQT40cvfgIPMBr/9V5asic hzeSWOiWXENRlLfwuJFesgA6a4FLWtKo5CMXmu+2kccUd+gQt7XnpJdBIjDX85wj vt/BrzcQLSLrrEeDYKdy/BNILzZrfefAZBw25uQ+MkyhIylGzKf5GcZrxzecJLPh 2ykZ5khr2QT9GszYtCJd+AKYVqya34ubPqbmWA5LjOzyHn5f3WPOVLkVaIZg592H MkCUIc7BQZ5MXt+sgoB/TOA5sqtLmQ9rp0g1bZHCESPvz4k46EhW66tRGVkeGLkE U7wh7cf3PooqJkTXinaquOk5U1M6oF4yOiH2pAdj1gMI9rCA7uBdwMf3QjOfPdS9 o3U/E9RUNMd4FeX2chyjwwd3AxgrqylsLPs3J5YGjKH+vwFaTOdXfMvULep1oBfb c6bwA8t428vHhUSzHAfQGWrZ4Ik7LhD+5OHccMbu6YA+7HcH19fTi2hx0/10Wt5G O2ljIYIcf2XwLhoQXjJOHIx6kureRFPNdwXr/4hKFSN7URjExwY= =xE39 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-H9IjW9ISzbg7+2/mgQnr--