[MIPS, backport] Testsuite fixes and minor functional backports for 2.25

[Matthew Fortune]

> Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com> writes:
> > > On 18 Dec 2014, at 23:12, Matthew Fortune
> > > <Matthew.Fortune@imgtec.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Tristan,
> > >
> > > There are three functional changes and some testsuite cleanup that
> > > I'd like to put into 2.25 if that is OK?
> > >
> > > Re: [PATCH, MIPS] Minor amendments to R6 opcode table
> > > http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2014-12/msg00160.html
> > >
> > > RE: [PATCH, MIPS] When calculating a relocation using an undefined
> > > weak
> > symbol don't check for overflow.
> > > http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2014-12/msg00019.html
> >
> > I'm fine with that.
> >
> > > With this patch resolving testsuite failures from the above:
> > > (pending review)
> > > http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2014-12/msg00184.html
> > >
> > > RE: [PATCH, MIPS] Relax alignment check for LDPC (pending review)
> > > http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2014-12/msg00176.html
> > >
> > > [PATCH, MIPS] Fix tx39-elf test failures (pending review)
> > > http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2014-12/msg00185.html
> >
> > Ok to backport, but I'd really like to do the release before
> Wednesday.
> 
> I guess this depends on whether Richard is already on vacation or not.
> Having said that I would expect someone else to be able to approve the
> two testsuite fixes which are pending. If the LDPC is missed then so be
> it.

All patches are committed to trunk and backported. That's everything from
me.

Thanks to Richard for reviewing them all.

Matthew