Documentation: raise minimum supported version of binutils to 2.25

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 some months
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@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
index 9844ca3a71a61689f171bc02fd10a12566ee5f0b..ef540865ad22e3b78352007c5b0f1c05f5a3e2b1 100644 (file)
--- 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 201bccfbc67883fdb9e6e872e56a58af5ca0c850..a814f1efb39d5f15e999436d132c8692a58b7bc3 100755 (executable)
--- 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