Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932265AbVKBExE (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Nov 2005 23:53:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751494AbVKBExE (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Nov 2005 23:53:04 -0500 Received: from dvhart.com ([64.146.134.43]:23722 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751493AbVKBExD (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Nov 2005 23:53:03 -0500 Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 20:53:08 -0800 From: "Martin J. Bligh" Reply-To: "Martin J. Bligh" To: Al Viro , Andrew Morton Cc: pj@sgi.com, ak@suse.de, tytso@mit.edu, torvalds@osdl.org, tony.luck@gmail.com, paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: New (now current development process) Message-ID: <219800000.1130907187@[10.10.2.4]> In-Reply-To: <20051031072714.GU7992@ftp.linux.org.uk> References: <4d8e3fd30510291026x611aa715pc1a153e706e70bc2@mail.gmail.com> <20051030213221.GA28020@thunk.org> <200510310145.43663.ak@suse.de> <20051031001810.GQ7992@ftp.linux.org.uk> <20051030191402.669273d5.pj@sgi.com> <20051031033426.GT7992@ftp.linux.org.uk> <20051030232234.3ebf77c8.akpm@osdl.org> <20051031072714.GU7992@ftp.linux.org.uk> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.2.1 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1306 Lines: 26 >> fud. Every -mm release is built with allmodconfig on x86 and on x86_64. >> It's also cross-compiled on fat configs for alpha, ppc32, ppc64, sparc64, >> arm and ia64. It's booted on x86, x86_64, ppc64 and ia64. Every release. > > What fud? I stand by my claim - I have tried to do the same thing for > -mm and found that I didn't have guts for that; too much work. For mainline > I do cross-builds for allmodconfig on a *lot* more targets than what you've > mentioned and generally it stays within ~150-200Kb of patches, about half > of that being a fix for 8390 mess. > > _IF_ somebody wants to do that for -mm, yell and you are more than welcome > to all infrastructure, except for the cycles on build box I'm using. > Incidentally, it is a box at work - my energy bill is high enough as it > is, without adding an 8-way 3GHz iamd64 to it... I'll do that if you want. I have a big lab full of largish boxes with serious aircon, and IBM can afford the power bill. I'm assuming this is a farm of cross-compilers that'll run on x86 (or x86_64)? M. - 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/