kbuild: Raise the minimum required binutils version to 2.21

It helps to use some new instructions directly in assembly code.

Suggested-by: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Chang S. Bae <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Ravi Shankar <[email protected]>
Cc: Linux Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
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Chang S. Bae authored and Thomas Gleixner committed 2019-06-22 11:38:51 +02:00
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@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ you probably needn't concern yourself with isdn4k-utils.
====================== =============== ========================================
GNU C 4.6 gcc --version
GNU make 3.81 make --version
binutils 2.20 ld -v
binutils 2.21 ld -v
flex 2.5.35 flex --version
bison 2.0 bison --version
util-linux 2.10o fdformat --version
@@ -77,9 +77,7 @@ You will need GNU make 3.81 or later to build the kernel.
Binutils
--------
The build system has, as of 4.13, switched to using thin archives (`ar T`)
rather than incremental linking (`ld -r`) for built-in.a intermediate steps.
This requires binutils 2.20 or newer.
Binutils 2.21 or newer is needed to build the kernel.
pkg-config
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