Recommended toolchain?

Hello,

This may be a naive question but I am coming from sparc(32) land
where nothing but gcc 2.7.2.x and gcc 2.95.2 is capable of compiling
a Linux kernel. So, what is the recommented version of gcc and
binutils for ppc kernel?

Thank you,
--Pete

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