[U-Boot] binutils 2.10.1 did not work with old u-boot(1.2.0)

[Xianghua Xiao]

On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:
> Dear Xianghua Xiao,
>
> In message <AANLkTi=N3AgzAxLUdSFdvyDEb5nz=teF=eh0f4knXu-j at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>>
>> Has anyone seen this, binutils 2.10.1 can never finish generating srec by doing:
>> objcopy --gap-fill=0xff -O srec u-boot u-boot.srec
>>
>> however with new u-boot release it works fine, the u-boot.srec can be
>> produced quickly.
>
> Hmmm... binutils 2.10.1 are 10 (in words: TEN !!!) years old.
>
> It takes some courage to dig out such old code...
>
> U-Boot 1.2.0 is also way over 3 years old.
>
>
> Please consider both versions as hopelessly obsoleted and completely
> unsupported.
>
>
> Please update both U-Boot and especially your tool chain.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>
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my bad, it's 2.20.1 instead of 2.10.1.
also tried 2.19 the same problem stays.
of course 2.20.1 with newest u-boot works perfectly fine.