From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>,
Peter Foley <pefoley2@pefoley.com>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
"Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: vdso_standalone_test_x86.c build failure on Linus' tree
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 14:21:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5435AABC.2010902@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141008160956.7584d303@as>
On 10/08/2014 02:09 PM, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>>
>> Breaking cross-compilation is not okay, though, regardless of what
>> Fedora does. It should be okay to, for example, build an i386 kernel on
>> an ARM box.
>>
>
> I think they tried that for a while, and ended up chasing compiler
> and makefile bugs all day. And then there's the software that wants
> to run self-tests as part of its build...
>
That we can't solve, but it is not okay to break the kernel build.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-08 21:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-08 18:52 vdso_standalone_test_x86.c build failure on Linus' tree Josh Boyer
2014-10-08 19:16 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-10-08 19:44 ` Peter Foley
2014-10-08 20:46 ` Chuck Ebbert
2014-10-08 20:50 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-10-08 20:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-10-08 21:09 ` Chuck Ebbert
2014-10-08 21:21 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2014-10-08 23:08 ` Chuck Ebbert
2014-10-08 23:11 ` Peter Foley
2014-10-08 23:18 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-10-09 0:18 ` Randy Dunlap
2014-10-08 21:21 ` Josh Boyer
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