From a9a8f77ac72d6dd3c92ea268291678836f77681c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kyle Moffett <Kyle.D.Moffett@boeing.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 13:30:43 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] powerpc: Remove buggy 9-year-old test for binutils < 2.12.1

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: Kyle Moffett <Kyle.D.Moffett@boeing.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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