I cannot find a version of binutils which doesn't either do

arch/ppc64/kernel/vdso32/gettimeofday.S: Assembler messages:
arch/ppc64/kernel/vdso32/gettimeofday.S:33: Error: syntax error; found `@' but expected `,'

or

arch/ppc64/kernel/vdso32/gettimeofday.S: Assembler messages:
arch/ppc64/kernel/vdso32/gettimeofday.S:33: Internal error, aborting at ../../gas/config/tc-ppc.c line 2658 in md_assemble
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>