[PATCH 1/2] Documentation: raise minimum supported version of binutils to 2.25.1

Masahiro Yamada masahiroy at kernel.org
Wed Aug 31 05:08:10 AEST 2022


Binutils 2.23 was released in 2012. Almost 10 years old.

We already require GCC 5.1, which was released in 2015.

Bump the binutils version to 2.25.1, which was also released in 2015.

Suggested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers at google.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy at kernel.org>
---

 Documentation/process/changes.rst | 4 ++--
 scripts/min-tool-version.sh       | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
index 19c286c23786..5fb6a60677ef 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ GNU C                  5.1              gcc --version
 Clang/LLVM (optional)  11.0.0           clang --version
 GNU make               3.81             make --version
 bash                   4.2              bash --version
-binutils               2.23             ld -v
+binutils               2.25.1           ld -v
 flex                   2.5.35           flex --version
 bison                  2.0              bison --version
 pahole                 1.16             pahole --version
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ Bash 4.2 or newer is needed.
 Binutils
 --------
 
-Binutils 2.23 or newer is needed to build the kernel.
+Binutils 2.25.1 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 250925aab101..8b1edd1f7281 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 2.25.1
 	;;
 gcc)
 	echo 5.1.0
-- 
2.34.1



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