On Thu, 18 Jun 2015, Adhemerval Zanella wrote: > > > On 18-06-2015 11:26, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Jun 2015, Adhemerval Zanella wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> On 18-06-2015 05:44, Maxim Kuvyrkov wrote: > >>>> On Jun 17, 2015, at 3:15 AM, Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pi...@linaro.org> > >>>> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> On Thu, 4 Jun 2015, Jim Wilson wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> The normal toolchain process is that patches get added to our releases > >>>>> only if they are already upstream. Our releases are FSF releases plus > >>>>> patches backported from mainline, with no local changes except when > >>>>> absolutely unavoidable. > >>>> > >>>> It is commit 451133cefa upstream. > >>>> > >>>> Please consider merging for the next toolchain release. I don't expect > >>>> major conflicts if any. > >>> > >>> Hi Adhemerval, > >>> > >>> FAOD, are you planning to merge this feature into linaro's 2.25 or 2.24 > >>> branch? > >>> > >>> My [very light] preference is to merge it to 2.25, but not 2.24. > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> > >> > >> Do we need it to 2.24? Is this patch preventing current kernel builds for > >> older > >> binutils releases? > > > > Current kernels are fine without it. My work on kernel tinification > > requires it though. Depending on when this work will be ready for wider > > consumption, it would be nice if our binutils already carried the > > necessary support. > > > > I don't know what the 2.24 vs 2.25 release timeline is, but if 2.25 is > > released, say, before next Connect then it should be good enough. > > > > > > Binutils 2.24 was officially released 2013/12 and Binutils 2.25 at 2014/12. > Current distros uses versions from 2.23 (RHEL7/CentOS7), 2.24 (Ubuntu 14), > or 2.25 (Debian Jessie) and I think next Linaro toolchain will use 2.25. > I would prefer to focus on 2.25, since 2.24 is reaching two years old, however > since this modification seems to be very constrained, I do not see much work > being required to backport to 2.24.
Well... All I really care about is for this patch to be available in next Linaro toolchain release, or next month's. The actual version number is immaterial to me. Nicolas _______________________________________________ linaro-toolchain mailing list linaro-toolchain@lists.linaro.org https://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain
