Re: [PATCH v2] early_printk: consolidate random copies of identical code

[Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>]

On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 08:10:43PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 07:49:35PM -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> > 
> > Within an hour, Fengguang's robots[1] found the branch, were compiling
> > it for fringe architectures, and running sparse on it, and sending me the
> > sparse regressions.  I'd listened to Fengguang's presentation while at
> > KS in San Diego, but I had no idea it was this proactive, until it did
> > autobot testing on my branch.
> 
> And people wonder why I wanted to give Fengguang a round of applauds
> there. I guess I was one of the first people to get his testing, as it
> found a lot of little things for me that my own tests missed.
> 
> > 
> > I have most of the prebuilt toolchains[2], and two line wrappers to set
> > the ARCH/CROSS_COMPILE, but as it stands, it seems I really don't
> > need those any more.  I can sanity test on a common arch and then
> > simply push to kernel.org to trigger build sanity across all arch.  I'll
> > probably still continue to use the toolchain prebuilts to test locally
> > though, just for the peace of mind.  But knowing FW bots are doing
> > testing before it goes into linux-next or anywhere else is really nice.
> > 
> 
> I should stress that there's a sample ktest.pl file for everyone:
> 
>  tools/testing/ktest/examples/crosstests.conf
> 
> Just download the cross compilers from:
> 
>  (assuming you're running on an x86_64 box)
> 
>   https://www.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/files/bin/x86_64/4.6.3/
> 
Have you tried that link recently ?

I get:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /pub/tools/crosstool/files/bin/x86_64/4.6.3/
on this server.

Guenter