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From: "Andi Kleen" <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip -v4] irq_work: generic hard-irq context callbacks
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 17:10:03 +0200 (CEST)
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> On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 13:29 +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
>
>> I uses the cross build tool from:
>>
>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/
>
> I'm not familiar with those, I build my own gcc-4.5.1 toolchains for all
> targets that would actually build a gcc toolchains, for those that don't
> I simply don't care about.

I don't think it's a reasonable requirement to have every contributor
compile on all architectures. If that was a general requirement
soon nobody would send patches anymore.

Cross arch breakages happen rarely and can be usually repaired after
the fact.

-Andi