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    powerpc: Remove buggy 9-year-old test for binutils < 2.12.1 · a9a8f77a
    Kyle Moffett authored
    Recent binutils refuses to assemble AltiVec opcodes when in e500/SPE
    mode, as some of those opcodes alias the "SPE" instructions.  This
    triggers an ancient binutils version check even when building a kernel
    with CONFIG_ALTIVEC disabled.
    
    In theory, the check could be conditionalized on CONFIG_ALTIVEC, but in
    practice it has long outlived its utility.  It is virtually impossible
    to find binutils older than 2.12.1 (released 2002) in the wild anymore.
    Even ancient RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 has binutils-2.14.
    
    To fix the kernel build when done natively on e500 systems with this new
    binutils, the test is simply removed.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKyle Moffett <Kyle.D.Moffett@boeing.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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