Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 03:44:10 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: davej@redhat.com, torvalds@osdl.org, jgarzik@pobox.com,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering
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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.
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