[PATCH] Documentation: raise minimum supported version of binutils to 2.25

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Wed Oct 12 2022 - 14:20:55 EST


Binutils 2.23 was released in 2012. Almost 10 years old.

We already require GCC 5.1, released in 2015.

Bump the binutils version to 2.25, which was released one year before
GCC 5.1.

With this applied, some subsystems can start to clean up code.
Examples:
arch/arm/Kconfig.assembler
arch/mips/vdso/Kconfig
arch/powerpc/Makefile
arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

Documentation/process/changes.rst | 4 ++--
scripts/min-tool-version.sh | 2 +-
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
index 9844ca3a71a6..ef540865ad22 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Rust (optional) 1.62.0 rustc --version
bindgen (optional) 0.56.0 bindgen --version
GNU make 3.82 make --version
bash 4.2 bash --version
-binutils 2.23 ld -v
+binutils 2.25 ld -v
flex 2.5.35 flex --version
bison 2.0 bison --version
pahole 1.16 pahole --version
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ Bash 4.2 or newer is needed.
Binutils
--------

-Binutils 2.23 or newer is needed to build the kernel.
+Binutils 2.25 or newer is needed to build the kernel.

pkg-config
----------
diff --git a/scripts/min-tool-version.sh b/scripts/min-tool-version.sh
index 8766e248ffbb..4e5b45d9b526 100755
--- a/scripts/min-tool-version.sh
+++ b/scripts/min-tool-version.sh
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ fi

case "$1" in
binutils)
- echo 2.23.0
+ echo 2.25.0
;;
gcc)
echo 5.1.0
--
2.34.1