[PATCH] fix missing option in binutils version check
Olaf Hering
olh at suse.de
Tue Jun 15 07:19:31 EST 2004
On Mon, Jun 14, Tom Rini wrote:
> ... except that we can have 'dssall' even when CONFIG_ALTIVEC=n, so we
> need it really on CONFIG_6xx.
switch_mm() has it in CONFIG_ALTIVEC, so checking for CONFIG_ALTIVEC=y
looks correct to me.
> But more importantly, why did you break the check to stop people with
> broken binutils from trying to compile the kernel, and not fix the rest
> of the breakage ?
What exactly is broken in the old binutils?
Is it this one?
opcodes/ChangeLog-0203
2002-04-17 matthew green <mrg at redhat.com>
* ppc-opc.c (powerpc_opcode): Fix dssall operand list.
Or rev 1.21 in opcodes/ppc-opc.c? The current check seems to check just
for that one.
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