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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-07-08 01:11:12 +0300 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-07-08 01:11:12 +0300 |
| commit | 98ced886dd79a7028d203ed8adea8452bbfb47b6 (patch) | |
| tree | 0bf36116d2866d63dc5024afe8b6493a3217531e /Documentation/process | |
| parent | 16ffc4c39415e62c1d027d1bc59ee28e267d59f2 (diff) | |
| parent | 42317ea79d9af0a83b6cfdfe43c27a91d468bfb1 (diff) | |
| download | linux-98ced886dd79a7028d203ed8adea8452bbfb47b6.tar.xz | |
Merge tag 'kbuild-thinar-v4.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild
Pull Kbuild thin archives updates from Masahiro Yamada:
"Thin archives migration by Nicholas Piggin.
THIN_ARCHIVES has been available for a while as an optional feature
only for PowerPC architecture, but we do not need two different
intermediate-artifact schemes.
Using thin archives instead of conventional incremental linking has
various advantages:
- save disk space for builds
- speed-up building a little
- fix some link issues (for example, allyesconfig on ARM) due to more
flexibility for the final linking
- work better with dead code elimination we are planning
As discussed before, this migration has been done unconditionally so
that any problems caused by this will show up with "git bisect".
With testing with 0-day and linux-next, some architectures actually
showed up problems, but they were trivial and all fixed now"
* tag 'kbuild-thinar-v4.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
tile: remove unneeded extra-y in Makefile
kbuild: thin archives make default for all archs
x86/um: thin archives build fix
tile: thin archives fix linking
ia64: thin archives fix linking
sh: thin archives fix linking
kbuild: handle libs-y archives separately from built-in.o archives
kbuild: thin archives use P option to ar
kbuild: thin archives final link close --whole-archives option
ia64: remove unneeded extra-y in Makefile.gate
tile: fix dependency and .*.cmd inclusion for incremental build
sparc64: Use indirect calls in hamming weight stubs
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/process')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/process/changes.rst | 9 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst index 3aed751e0cb5..adbb50ae5246 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 3.2 gcc --version GNU make 3.81 make --version -binutils 2.12 ld -v +binutils 2.20 ld -v util-linux 2.10o fdformat --version module-init-tools 0.9.10 depmod -V e2fsprogs 1.41.4 e2fsck -V @@ -75,10 +75,9 @@ You will need GNU make 3.81 or later to build the kernel. Binutils -------- -Linux on IA-32 has recently switched from using ``as86`` to using ``gas`` for -assembling the 16-bit boot code, removing the need for ``as86`` to compile -your kernel. This change does, however, mean that you need a recent -release of 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.o intermediate steps. +This requires binutils 2.20 or newer. Perl ---- |