new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1

Rob Landley [off-list ref] writes:

On 09/23/2013 06:59:17 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:

quoted

During 3.12-rc, Will Deacon introduced code into arch/arm that
requires binutils 2.22.

Um, my toolchain is using the last gplv2 snapshot of binutils out of  
git, which is just past 2.17 and can build armv7 (but not armv8).

Binutils 2.12->2.22 is quite the jump. (11 years.) I'd except some  
thought to have gone into that? Possibly a mention of it?

I seriously doubt that 2.12 still works at all (I doubt it can even be
built on a modern system).  In my experience, binutils older than 2.19
or so rarely works properly for ARM.

What value is there in maintaining compatibility with a truly ancient
binutils version anyway?

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