[PATCH] ARM: Remove configure check for binutils 2.21 for ARMv7

Joseph Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Fri Jan 2 16:17:00 GMT 2015


On Fri, 2 Jan 2015, Chris Metcalf wrote:

> On 1/2/2015 10:59 AM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> > On Fri, 2 Jan 2015, Will Newton wrote:
> > 
> > > The default required version of binutils has been increased to 2.22
> > > making this check redundant.
> > OK.
> 
> Yes, though I'll jump in now to remind folks that I have an outstanding patch
> to drop the binutils minimum back to 2.21 unless there's a specific need for
> 2.22 somewhere.  My patch doesn't affect Will's patch, but I thought I'd
> mention it anyway :-)

Well, the point of 2.22 was to ensure AVX2 support; otherwise (if the 
copyright assignment comes through in time) the libmvec patches may need 
an x86_64-specific binutils version check.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com



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