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| author | Kyle Moffett <Kyle.D.Moffett@boeing.com> | 2011-11-07 17:30:43 +0400 |
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| committer | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2011-11-17 09:26:07 +0400 |
| commit | a9a8f77ac72d6dd3c92ea268291678836f77681c (patch) | |
| tree | 5418164440e9897bbd68be6ee50aaf6334a00f42 /arch | |
| parent | 187b9f2aa769198daa7cf8054abb65a08b8d8b47 (diff) | |
| download | linux-a9a8f77ac72d6dd3c92ea268291678836f77681c.tar.xz | |
powerpc: Remove buggy 9-year-old test for binutils < 2.12.1
Recent binutils refuses to assemble AltiVec opcodes when in e500/SPE
mode, as some of those opcodes alias the "SPE" instructions. This
triggers an ancient binutils version check even when building a kernel
with CONFIG_ALTIVEC disabled.
In theory, the check could be conditionalized on CONFIG_ALTIVEC, but in
practice it has long outlived its utility. It is virtually impossible
to find binutils older than 2.12.1 (released 2002) in the wild anymore.
Even ancient RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 has binutils-2.14.
To fix the kernel build when done natively on e500 systems with this new
binutils, the test is simply removed.
Signed-off-by: Kyle Moffett <Kyle.D.Moffett@boeing.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/Makefile | 6 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/Makefile index 57af16edc192..70ba0c0a1223 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/Makefile +++ b/arch/powerpc/Makefile @@ -255,12 +255,6 @@ checkbin: echo 'disable kernel modules' ; \ false ; \ fi - @if ! /bin/echo dssall | $(AS) -many -o $(TOUT) >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then \ - echo -n '*** ${VERSION}.${PATCHLEVEL} kernels no longer build ' ; \ - echo 'correctly with old versions of binutils.' ; \ - echo '*** Please upgrade your binutils to 2.12.1 or newer' ; \ - false ; \ - fi CLEAN_FILES += $(TOUT) |