From: Masahiro Yamada Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2022 18:18:41 +0000 (+0900) Subject: Documentation: raise minimum supported version of binutils to 2.25 X-Git-Url: https://www.infradead.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e4412739472b;p=linux.git Documentation: raise minimum supported version of binutils to 2.25 Binutils 2.23 was released in 2012. Almost 10 years old. We already require GCC 5.1, released in 2015. Bump the binutils version to 2.25, which was released some months before GCC 5.1. With this applied, some subsystems can start to clean up code. Examples: arch/arm/Kconfig.assembler arch/mips/vdso/Kconfig arch/powerpc/Makefile arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Acked-by: Linus Torvalds Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers --- diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst index 9844ca3a71a6..ef540865ad22 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Rust (optional) 1.62.0 rustc --version bindgen (optional) 0.56.0 bindgen --version GNU make 3.82 make --version bash 4.2 bash --version -binutils 2.23 ld -v +binutils 2.25 ld -v flex 2.5.35 flex --version bison 2.0 bison --version pahole 1.16 pahole --version @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ Bash 4.2 or newer is needed. Binutils -------- -Binutils 2.23 or newer is needed to build the kernel. +Binutils 2.25 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 201bccfbc678..a814f1efb39d 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 2.25.0 ;; gcc) echo 5.1.0