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From: "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hjl.tools@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Trying to make a working kernel with the gold linker
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:13:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120411191325.GL12044@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120411182856.GA327@x4>

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 08:28:56PM +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> 
> Just compiling and installing a new binutils version should work fine.
> 
> (But you should nonetheless consider to also upgrade gcc, because
> gcc-4.4 is ancient and not even officially maintained anymore...)

Well *someone* has to still make sure the kernel compiles correctly on
the enterprise distro's that a huge number of Linux users use...
(including RHEL 6, Debian Stable, SLES 11, Ubuntu LTS 10.04, etc.)

:-)

But yeah, I hope to get off of Ubuntu LTS real soon now, and onto
something a bit more hip, such as Debian testing.

						- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-11 19:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-11  2:23 Theodore Ts'o
2012-04-11  3:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-04-11  4:51 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2012-04-11 18:05   ` Ted Ts'o
2012-04-11 18:28     ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2012-04-11 19:13       ` Ted Ts'o [this message]
2012-04-11 19:18         ` H.J. Lu

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