It helps to use some new instructions directly in assembly code. Suggested-by: Andi Kleen <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Chang S. Bae <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <[email protected]> Acked-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Cc: Linux Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> --- Documentation/process/changes.rst | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst index 18735dc460a0..0a18075c485e 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ you probably needn't concern yourself with isdn4k-utils. ====================== =============== ======================================== GNU C 4.6 gcc --version GNU make 3.81 make --version -binutils 2.20 ld -v +binutils 2.21 ld -v flex 2.5.35 flex --version bison 2.0 bison --version util-linux 2.10o fdformat --version @@ -77,9 +77,7 @@ You will need GNU make 3.81 or later to build the kernel. Binutils -------- -The build system has, as of 4.13, switched to using thin archives (`ar T`) -rather than incremental linking (`ld -r`) for built-in.a intermediate steps. -This requires binutils 2.20 or newer. +Binutils 2.21 or newer is needed to build the kernel. pkg-config ---------- -- 2.19.1
