From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753531AbdJHStZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Oct 2017 14:49:25 -0400 Received: from mail-pf0-f195.google.com ([209.85.192.195]:33110 "EHLO mail-pf0-f195.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753298AbdJHStY (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Oct 2017 14:49:24 -0400 X-Google-Smtp-Source: AOwi7QALvJTlubocXAHoCUTC4m5ODb0opIfDqZ3/2kbObSpRq+OKmwZ2TWoEYF6sb36PtlyqRwHpEA== Subject: Re: Building older mips kernels with different versions of binutils; possible patch for 3.2 and 3.4 To: Ben Hutchings , stable , Linux MIPS Mailing List , Li Zefan , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" References: <573936E3.3050003@roeck-us.net> <1507486329.2677.81.camel@decadent.org.uk> From: Guenter Roeck Message-ID: Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2017 11:49:18 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1507486329.2677.81.camel@decadent.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/08/2017 11:12 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > 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 necessary to >> apply patch c02263063362 ("MIPS: Refactor 'clear_page' and 'copy_page' functions"). >> 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+ kernels. > > I'm finally queueing this up for 3.2. > > Ben. > mipsel images in 3.2.y-queue are now crashing for me. Should I have a look ? Guenter