Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261207AbUKEU3n (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Nov 2004 15:29:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261203AbUKEU3n (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Nov 2004 15:29:43 -0500 Received: from witte.sonytel.be ([80.88.33.193]:49916 "EHLO witte.sonytel.be") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261207AbUKEU33 (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Nov 2004 15:29:29 -0500 Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 21:28:58 +0100 (MET) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Willy Tarreau cc: Adam Heath , Chris Friesen , Chris Wedgwood , Christoph Hellwig , Timothy Miller , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: support of older compilers In-Reply-To: <20041105200021.GA30993@alpha.home.local> Message-ID: References: <41894779.10706@techsource.com> <20041103211353.GA24084@infradead.org> <20041103233029.GA16982@taniwha.stupidest.org> <418A603A.3030806@nortelnetworks.com> <20041105200021.GA30993@alpha.home.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1331 Lines: 33 On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 12:17:01PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: > > > You're posting to the kernel development list--many people here recompile dozens > > > of times a day. > > > > So find the fastest computer you have, and use that. There is no need to > > compile a kernel on the machine it will be run on. > > Uhh ? > > What are you smoking ? We all have the fastest computers we can buy, and > since a kernel still takes a few minutes to compile on those computers, > we try to use the fastest compilers to save *HOURS* at the end of the day. > Nobody ever claimed that we all spend our time compiling on the target > system. I wonder if thas would be possible on a 16 MB/200 MHz MIPS ;-) Why not? 16 MB and 200 MHz used to be plenty! Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds - 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/