x86: add comments about the binutils version to support code in as-instr
authorMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Thu, 26 Mar 2020 08:00:59 +0000 (17:00 +0900)
committerMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Wed, 8 Apr 2020 15:01:59 +0000 (00:01 +0900)
commite9e070cfe141e73588f1e48ca3f51d1183b8b646
tree3bcf70b84a3989a41833873be6341aa931dc94e2
parent5e8ebd841a44b895e2bab5e874ff7d333ca31135
x86: add comments about the binutils version to support code in as-instr

We raise the minimal supported binutils version from time to time.
The last bump was commit 1fb12b35e5ff ("kbuild: Raise the minimum
required binutils version to 2.21").

We have these as-instr tests because binutils 2.21 does not support
them.

When we bump the binutils version next time, this will be a good
hint to find out which one can be dropped.

As for the Clang/LLVM builds, we require very new LLVM version,
so the LLVM integrated assembler supports all of them.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler