Re: [PATCH] binutils-2.16 & kernel-2.6.11.10

[Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>]

On Sunday 22 May 2005 11:51, you wrote:
> On Saturday 21 May 2005 23:59, Herbert Rosmanith wrote:
> > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/linux-2.6-seg-5.patch
> > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/linux-2.4-seg-4.patch
> > >
> > > should probably fix that.
> >
> > interesting, that's the same patch (s/movl/movw/), but it is date
> > from *march* 2005.
> >
> > why is this not in the kernel source yet? It is definitely not
> > okay to "movl" a segreg.
>
> I'd also like to know the status of these patches; I've avoided the last
> couple binutils upgrades because of HJL's attached kernel patches and
> implied Linux build problems.

For what it's worth, I recently built an adapted LFS SVN for x86-64, using 
HJL's binutils 2.16.90.0.2. A few weeks later, and still no problems. 
Literally the only package I had difficulty building was Linux itself, and 
the attached patches seem to work fine.

Let's hope they get into mainline shortly.

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

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