Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262319AbUKDS4R (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Nov 2004 13:56:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262326AbUKDS4Q (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Nov 2004 13:56:16 -0500 Received: from e34.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.132]:15045 "EHLO e34.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262319AbUKDSzq (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Nov 2004 13:55:46 -0500 Message-ID: <418A7AFC.6040007@us.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 10:54:52 -0800 From: Ian Romanick User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adam Heath CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: support of older compilers References: <41894779.10706@techsource.com> <20041103211353.GA24084@infradead.org> <20041103233029.GA16982@taniwha.stupidest.org> <200411041704.iA4H4sdZ014948@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1238 Lines: 28 Adam Heath wrote: > On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, wrote: >>On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 10:50:38 CST, Adam Heath said: >> >>>I didn't deny the speed difference of older and newer compilers. >>> >>>But why is this an issue when compiling a kernel? How often do you compile >>>your kernel? >> >>If you're working on older hardware (note the number of people on this >>list still using 500mz Pentium3 and similar), and a kernel developer, the >>difference between 2 hours to build a kernel and 4 hours to build a >>kernel matters quite a bit. > > Use faster hardware to compile a kernel. Cross-compiling is easy for kernels. > > Plus, at least on i386/debian, kernel-package makes it easy. And if that 500MHz Pentium3 *IS* they fastest hardware they have? Should they just go carjack someone to fund a new system to make you happy? ;) Not everyone has a corporation like IBM or Redhat to fund their hardware needs. A lot of people that make real, valuable contributions to lk are on a shoestring budget. - 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/