linux-kernel - RFC: x86: kill binutils 2.16.x?

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Date:	Wed, 02 Mar 2011 10:15:14 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: RFC: x86: kill binutils 2.16.x?

binutils 2.16 (and presumably its prereleases, binutils 2.15.9x) appears
to have more bugs than any other version of binutils released in modern
history, *before or after*.

We chronically run into problems because that particular binutils
version breaks code that works fine elsewhere.

I would like to know who would suffer from formally discontinuing
support for that version.  I understand some version of SLES shipped it,
but I don't know for sure.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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