Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755275AbaJHVXJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2014 17:23:09 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:43997 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755149AbaJHVXH (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2014 17:23:07 -0400 Message-ID: <5435AABC.2010902@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 14:21:00 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chuck Ebbert CC: Andy Lutomirski , Josh Boyer , Peter Foley , Randy Dunlap , Jiri Kosina , "Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: vdso_standalone_test_x86.c build failure on Linus' tree References: <20141008154659.31f46436@as> <5435A4A4.1070101@zytor.com> <20141008160956.7584d303@as> In-Reply-To: <20141008160956.7584d303@as> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/