linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] Documentation: raise minimum supported version of binutils to 2.25.1

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Date:   Wed, 31 Aug 2022 04:08:10 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
To:     Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Documentation: raise minimum supported version of binutils to 2.25.1

Binutils 2.23 was released in 2012. Almost 10 years old.

We already require GCC 5.1, which was released in 2015.

Bump the binutils version to 2.25.1, which was also released in 2015.

Suggested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
---

 Documentation/process/changes.rst | 4 ++--
 scripts/min-tool-version.sh       | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
index 19c286c23786..5fb6a60677ef 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ GNU C                  5.1              gcc --version
 Clang/LLVM (optional)  11.0.0           clang --version
 GNU make               3.81             make --version
 bash                   4.2              bash --version
-binutils               2.23             ld -v
+binutils               2.25.1           ld -v
 flex                   2.5.35           flex --version
 bison                  2.0              bison --version
 pahole                 1.16             pahole --version
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ Bash 4.2 or newer is needed.
 Binutils
 --------
 
-Binutils 2.23 or newer is needed to build the kernel.
+Binutils 2.25.1 or newer is needed to build the kernel.
 
 pkg-config
 ----------
diff --git a/scripts/min-tool-version.sh b/scripts/min-tool-version.sh
index 250925aab101..8b1edd1f7281 100755
--- a/scripts/min-tool-version.sh
+++ b/scripts/min-tool-version.sh
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ fi
 
 case "$1" in
 binutils)
-	echo 2.23.0
+	echo 2.25.1
 	;;
 gcc)
 	echo 5.1.0
-- 
2.34.1