From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Chiang Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:33:32 +0000 Subject: Re: cross-compilers Message-Id: <20090408173332.GB20187@ldl.fc.hp.com> List-Id: References: <20090408003921.GA5054@ldl.fc.hp.com> <20090408010331.GB10768@sgi.com> <20090408054612.GA6744@ldl.fc.hp.com> <20090407225457.86f8a458.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20090407225457.86f8a458.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Andrew Morton Cc: Robin Holt , linux-kernel , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org * Andrew Morton : > On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 23:46:12 -0600 Alex Chiang wrote: > > > * Robin Holt : > > > Don't know if this answers your problem, but I use the tools from > > > emdebian and they do not suffer from the problems you list below. > > > > Wow, this seems _much_ simpler. Once you get the toolchain > > installed, all you have to do is set ARCH and CROSS_COMPILE > > appropriately? > > > > I guess the question remains for Andrew. Since I pretty much did > > all the work needed to update his cross-compiler repo, is there > > still value in it? > > We would benefit very much from having someone who actually maintains a > suite of cross-compilers for kernel developers. Ok, I'll work with Vegard on this. Thanks. /ac