Re: [PATCH 6.1 000/194] 6.1.47-rc1 review

[Guenter Roeck]

On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 10:35:54AM +0100, Conor Dooley wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 09:39:39PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.1.47 release.
> > There are 194 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > let me know.
> 
> Fails to build for me with gcc-11/binutils 2.37 on RISC-V. The problematic
> patch is "riscv: Handle zicsr/zifencei issue between gcc and binutils".
> Can you drop that please, probably from all of your branches. It
> certainly affects 6.4 too & I don't personally test anything older than
> 6.1.
> 
If I recall correctly, I had to be careful with combining gcc versions 
and binutils versions. gcc 11.4.0 combined with binutils 2.40 works fine
for me. Note that this doesn't just affect riscv. loongarch and ppc are
quite notorious for that as well.

Guenter