[Ksummit-2013-discuss] Keeping the barbarians at the gate
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Tue Jul 23 15:50:52 UTC 2013
On 07/23/2013 07:22 AM, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
>
> For example, as I commented elsewhere[1], I don't think the file
> Documentation/Changes file has anything worth trying to save. Yet
> we reference it in lots of places like it has critical information.
> It _used_ to have critical information 10yrs ago. But not anymore.
>
Documentation/Changes really needs to be replaced with a new document
outlining baseline requirements for tools... for the kernel as a whole
and for each individual architecture. In particular gcc and binutils
versions can vary dramatically.
-hpa
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