MIPS: Add microMIPS R5 support

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+* The MIPS port now supports the microMIPS Release 5 ISA for assembly and
+  disassembly.
+
+* The MIPS port now supports the Imagination interAptiv MR2 processor,
+  which implements the MIPS32r3 ISA, the MIPS16e2 ASE as well as a couple
+  of implementation-specific regular MIPS and MIPS16e2 ASE instructions.
+
+* The SPARC port now supports the SPARC M8 processor, which implements the
+  Oracle SPARC Architecture 2017.
+
+* The MIPS port now supports the MIPS16e2 ASE for assembly and disassembly.
+
+* Add support for ELF SHF_GNU_MBIND and PT_GNU_MBIND_XXX.
+
+* Add support for the wasm32 ELF conversion of the WebAssembly file format.
+
+* Add --inlines option to objdump, which extends the --line-numbers option
+  so that inlined functions will display their nesting information.
+
+* Add --merge-notes options to objcopy to reduce the size of notes in
+  a binary file by merging and deleting redundant notes.
+
+* Add support for locating separate debug info files using the build-id
+  method, where the separate file has a name based upon the build-id of
+  the original file.
+
+Changes in 2.28:
+
+* This version of binutils fixes a problem with PowerPC VLE 16A and 16D
+  relocations which were functionally swapped, for example,
+  R_PPC_VLE_HA16A performed like R_PPC_VLE_HA16D while R_PPC_VLE_HA16D
+  performed like R_PPC_VLE_HA16A.  This could have been fixed by
+  renumbering relocations, which would keep object files created by an
+  older version of gas compatible with a newer ld.  However, that would
+  require an ABI update, affecting other assemblers and linkers that
+  create and process the relocations correctly.  It is recommended that
+  all VLE object files be recompiled, but ld can modify the relocations
+  if --vle-reloc-fixup is passed to ld.  If the new ld command line
+  option is not used, ld will ld warn on finding relocations inconsistent
+  with the instructions being relocated.
+
+* The nm program has a new command line option (--with-version-strings)
+  which will display a symbol's version information, if any, after the
+  symbol's name.
+
 * The ARC port of objdump now accepts a -M option to specify the extra
   instruction class(es) that should be disassembled.
 
@@ -535,7 +580,7 @@ Changes in binutils 2.1:
   and/or local symbols only.  They now also support long options.
 
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