Recent binutils refuses to assemble AltiVec opcodes when in e500/SPE
mode, as some of those opcodes alias the "SPE" instructions. This
triggers an ancient binutils version check even when building a kernel
with CONFIG_ALTIVEC disabled.
In theory, the check could be conditionalized on CONFIG_ALTIVEC, but in
practice it has long outlived its utility. It is virtually impossible
to find binutils older than 2.12.1 (released 2002) in the wild anymore.
Even ancient RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 has binutils-2.14.
To fix the kernel build when done natively on e500 systems with this new
binutils, the test is simply removed.
Signed-off-by: Kyle Moffett <redacted>
---
arch/powerpc/Makefile | 6 ------
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/Makefile
index 57af16e..70ba0c0 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Makefile
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Makefile
@@ -255,12 +255,6 @@ checkbin:
echo 'disable kernel modules' ; \
false ; \
fi
- @if ! /bin/echo dssall | $(AS) -many -o $(TOUT) >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then \
- echo -n '*** ${VERSION}.${PATCHLEVEL} kernels no longer build ' ; \
- echo 'correctly with old versions of binutils.' ; \
- echo '*** Please upgrade your binutils to 2.12.1 or newer' ; \
- false ; \
- fi
CLEAN_FILES += $(TOUT)
--
1.7.2.5