From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756749AbYEDMpw (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 May 2008 08:45:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755354AbYEDMpm (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 May 2008 08:45:42 -0400 Received: from smtpq2.groni1.gr.home.nl ([213.51.130.201]:50617 "EHLO smtpq2.groni1.gr.home.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755350AbYEDMpl (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 May 2008 08:45:41 -0400 Message-ID: <481DB004.5090109@keyaccess.nl> Date: Sun, 04 May 2008 14:45:56 +0200 From: Rene Herman User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arjan van de Ven CC: Andrew Morton , Adrian Bunk , Linus Torvalds , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jirislaby@gmail.com, Steven Rostedt Subject: Re: RFC: starting a kernel-testers group for newbies References: <20080429.190352.137408408.davem@davemloft.net> <200804302136.58005.rjw@sisk.pl> <20080430131537.1f7a0914.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080501003125.GM29330@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080430000338.50548884@infradead.org> <20080501011346.522f9846.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080430071526.1bce202c@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20080430071526.1bce202c@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 30-04-08 16:15, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > Does that mean nobody should fix the m68k bug? Someone who cares about > m68k for sure should work on it, or if it's easy for an ext4 developer, > sure. But if the ext4 person has to spend 8 hours on it figuring cross > compilers, I say we're doing something very wrong here. (no offense to > the m68k people, but there's just a few of you; maybe I should have > picked voyager instead) 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... Rene