Re: Building older mips kernels with different versions of binutils; possible patch for 3.2 and 3.4

[Guenter Roeck]

On 10/08/2017 11:12 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-05-15 at 19:56 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> [...]
> > For 3.4 and 3.2 kernels to build with binutils v2.24, it would be necessary to
> > apply patch c02263063362 ("MIPS: Refactor 'clear_page' and 'copy_page' functions").
> > It applies cleanly to 3.4, but has a Makefile conflict in 3.2. It might
> > make sense to apply this patch to both releases. Would this be possible ?
> > This way, we would have at least one toolchain which can build all 3.2+ kernels.
>
> I'm finally queueing this up for 3.2.
>
> Ben.

mipsel images in 3.2.y-queue are now crashing for me. Should I have a look ?

Guenter