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Message-ID: <20250515182806.GD1411@quark>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2025 11:28:06 -0700
From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] kbuild: require gcc-8 and binutils-2.30

On Mon, Apr 07, 2025 at 11:41:13AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
> index d564362773b5..41b1431f5a6b 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
> @@ -29,13 +29,13 @@ you probably needn't concern yourself with pcmciautils.
>  ====================== ===============  ========================================
>          Program        Minimal version       Command to check the version
>  ====================== ===============  ========================================
> -GNU C                  5.1              gcc --version
> +GNU C                  8.1              gcc --version
>  Clang/LLVM (optional)  13.0.1           clang --version
>  Rust (optional)        1.78.0           rustc --version
>  bindgen (optional)     0.65.1           bindgen --version
>  GNU make               4.0              make --version
>  bash                   4.2              bash --version
> -binutils               2.25             ld -v
> +binutils               2.30             ld -v
>  flex                   2.5.35           flex --version
>  bison                  2.0              bison --version
>  pahole                 1.16             pahole --version

Later in this file, there's another mention of the binutils version that needs
to be updated.  (Or maybe removed since it's redundant with the table?)

    Binutils
    --------

    Binutils 2.25 or newer is needed to build the kernel.