Christoph Hellwig writes: > What's the minimum required binutils version for ppc32 these days?
Whichever version is the first to handle the altivec instructions. > The debian kernel package ups it from 2.12.1 to 2.12.90.0.7, i.e. from > the first 2.12 maintaince release to one of hjl's later releases and > I wonder why it does that. Either it's bogus and should be be dropped > or we should up it in mainline. Seems bogus to me. BTW, there is a recent change in binutils which make gas *not* recognize the altivec instructions by default. (This was to fix the disassembler, go figure.) We should probably add -many to ASFLAGS. Paul.