Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

Andrew Morton
2005-03-04T12:20:02Z

Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 03:26:32AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 08:38:12PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > Grump. Have all these regressions received the appropriate level of
> > > > visibility on this mailing list?
> > >
> > > Looking at the http://l4x.org/k/ site, it appears that all -mm versions
> > > have broken ARM support with the defconfig, while Linus kernels at least
> > > build fine.
> >
> > It's very much in an arch maintainer's interest to make sure that
> > cross-compilers are easily obtainable. Any hints?
>
> Been trying to achieve that since it's a FAQ on ARM lists. Even gone to
> the extent of setting up a separate mailing list, getting a volunteer to
> track what people want and do the hard work to build them. That was
> about 6 months ago, and I haven't seen any results.

hm. That's strange. I'd have thought that 99% of the arm embedded
developers cross-build.

> Anyway, going back to why -mm doesn't work:
>
> arch/arm/kernel/built-in.o(.init.text+0xb64): In function `$a':
> : undefined reference to `rd_size'
> make[1]: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
>
> So "rd_size" got deleted in -mm kernels without reference to anyone else
> who's using it. Greeeeaaatttt....

Ah. Fixed, thanks.