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| author | Kyle Moffett | 2011-11-07 14:30:43 +0100 |
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| committer | Benjamin Herrenschmidt | 2011-11-17 06:26:07 +0100 |
| commit | a9a8f77ac72d6dd3c92ea268291678836f77681c (patch) | |
| tree | 5418164440e9897bbd68be6ee50aaf6334a00f42 /arch/powerpc/include/asm | |
| parent | powerpc/book3e-64: Fix debug support for userspace (diff) | |
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powerpc: Remove buggy 9-year-old test for binutils < 2.12.1
Recent binutils refuses to assemble AltiVec opcodes when in e500/SPE
mode, as some of those opcodes alias the "SPE" instructions. This
triggers an ancient binutils version check even when building a kernel
with CONFIG_ALTIVEC disabled.
In theory, the check could be conditionalized on CONFIG_ALTIVEC, but in
practice it has long outlived its utility. It is virtually impossible
to find binutils older than 2.12.1 (released 2002) in the wild anymore.
Even ancient RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 has binutils-2.14.
To fix the kernel build when done natively on e500 systems with this new
binutils, the test is simply removed.
Signed-off-by: Kyle Moffett <Kyle.D.Moffett@boeing.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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