> fine with the patch. And that's pretty close to the 2.9.1.0.15 recommended
> in the Documentation/Changes for 2.2.
And I can always change that to 2.9.5 or whatever if necessary ;-).
> I guess the thing just needs a bit of testing to *see* if it will work
> with the older binutils. That's something I'd like to get a feel for: how
> many people are going to be bit by a bug and need to upgrade. If that
> number is too high, I'd be happy to drop this idea and start on a patch to
> change it all to NASM. But if that number isn't so bad, then we can apply
> the patch, remove the dependency on as86/ld86, and be happy.
This doesn't make a whole lot of sense IMHO. You're afraid of forcing
people to upgrade to the latest binutils, so instead you want to force
everyone to install yet *another*, even more obscure package to compile
their kernel? Just to pick at least one prominent distribution, at least
Red Hat 6 doesn't even ship NASM on the CD.
Personally, I'm all in favor of switching to gas and dropping the as86
requirement. But then, I'm biased in that I don't code assember....
later,
chris
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