binutils: Upgrade to 2.44 release

* Drop the CVE-2024-53589 patch, its included in 2.44
* Package newly rename gp-* to gprofng-* binaries and remove old gp-*
  symlinks

* Gold linker is now deprecated and will be removed in future release
  its already deleted in tarball releases

* Support for the Nios II target has been removed.

* Assembler:
    - Support for new architecture extensions for AArch64, Risc-V and
      x86.

* Linker:
      The default maximum page size was changed from 16KiB to 64KiB for
      LoongArch.

      This now supports mixed LTO and non-LTO object files in
      relocatable output.

      The ELF forms of the linker support a --image-base=<ADDR> option
      for compatibility with LLD.

      The --build-id= option now accepts an argument of "xx" which
      enables the use of the xxhash library.  This produces a 128-bit
      hash and is 2-4x faster than md5 or sha1.

      The ELF linker option --package-metadata supports percent-encoded
      and %[string] encoded JSON payloads.

* Disassembler:
      The RISC-V disassembler now supports -M,max option like QEMU to
      dump instruction without checking architecture support as usual.

* GprofNG:
      Support added for hardware event counters for Neoverse-N1,
      Ampere-1, and Appliedmicro processors.

Detailed release notes [1]

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2025-02/msg00001.html

(From OE-Core rev: df3c43e69542939a4bec3893f1e927edf2ad7179)

Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/tcmode-default.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/tcmode-default.inc
index 34f20b8f26..68a9515e0b 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/tcmode-default.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/tcmode-default.inc
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/gettext ??= "gettext"
 
 GCCVERSION ?= "14.%"
 SDKGCCVERSION ?= "${GCCVERSION}"
-BINUVERSION ?= "2.43%"
+BINUVERSION ?= "2.44%"
 GDBVERSION ?= "16.%"
 GLIBCVERSION ?= "2.40%"
 LINUXLIBCVERSION ?= "6.12%"