new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1
Måns Rullgård
mans at mansr.com
Wed Sep 25 16:49:07 EDT 2013
Russell King - ARM Linux <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> writes:
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:23:06AM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
>> On 09/24/2013 09:07:57 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>>> It could be as simple as making gas accept an extra argument for
>>> instructions like dsb and just ignoring it.
>>
>> So you prefer I come up with the reversion patches locally and _not_
>> send them upstream?
>
> This is a silly attitude. What you're effectively saying is that we
> are never allowed to use any future ARM instructions in any Linux
> kernel because that might break your precious assembler.
>
> I've got news for you. We're *not* going to listen to that argument.
>
> END OF DISCUSSION (everything else is just a waste of time.)
I fully agree.
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Måns Rullgård
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