Re: RFC: starting a kernel-testers group for newbies

Rene Herman
2008-05-04T13:19:18Z

On 04-05-08 15:00, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl> wrote:

>> On that note, I'd really like to see better binary availability of cross
>> compilers. While it's improved over the last few years mostly due to the
>> crossgcc stuff it's still a pain. Ideally, they would be available through
>> the distribution package manager even but failing that some dedicated place
>> on kernel.org with x86->lots and some of the more widely used other
>> combinations would quite definitely be good. Perhaps not really directly
>> relevant to this thread as such, but still good.
>>
>> Andrew maintain{s,ed} a number of them at
>>
>> http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/cross-compilers/
>>
>> But as you see, most of the stuff there is really old again...
>
> You're most welcome to help out Vegard to do this:
>
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/

Ah, thanks, lovely, just new I see (and yes, I meant s/grossgcc/crosstool/).
Good thing. I'll check it out and see if there's anything to add.

Rene.