kilauea compilation breaks with v3.3 kernel and ELDK 4.2

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Fri Apr 6 03:44:04 EST 2012


Dear Stephen Rothwell,

In message <20120405100228.9ca940aa4739e81540bb2a6f at canb.auug.org.au> you wrote:
>
> > ELDK 4.2 is based on gcc version 4.2.2 / binutils version 2.17.50.0.12
> > 20070128.  This is obviously to old for this code.  I do not see an
> > actual problem with that - nobody can expect that we support old tol
> > chain versions forever.
> 
> The requirements are documented in Documentation/Changes where we say we
> need gcc 3.2 and binutils 2.12.  Not that that is very relevant to this
> discussion. ;-)

Indeed. I doubt you can build any working PPC kernel with these old
tools.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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