Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Avoid macro redefinitions

From: Thomas Bogendoerfer
Date: Wed Jul 21 2021 - 12:17:35 EST


On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 11:10:55PM +0100, Paul Cercueil wrote:
> > > #ifndef TOOLCHAIN_SUPPORTS_VIRT
> >
> > Same question for GAS version support for virt?
> > Documentation/process/changes.rst
> > says GNU binutils 2.23+ is required for building the kernel.
> > If we still need to support, have you tested this change on such an
> > older version of GNU binutils?
>
> I have no idea about virt support - I hope Thomas can answer this.

virt support was added in 2.24 and xpa in 2.25. So we still need the
TOOLCHAIN defines for it.

Thomas.

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