Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 11:33:32 -0600
From: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cross-compilers
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* Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>:
> On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 23:46:12 -0600 Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> wrote:
> 
> > * Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>:
> > > Don't know if this answers your problem, but I use the tools from
> > > emdebian and they do not suffer from the problems you list below.
> > 
> > Wow, this seems _much_ simpler. Once you get the toolchain
> > installed, all you have to do is set ARCH and CROSS_COMPILE
> > appropriately?
> > 
> > I guess the question remains for Andrew. Since I pretty much did
> > all the work needed to update his cross-compiler repo, is there
> > still value in it?
> 
> We would benefit very much from having someone who actually maintains a
> suite of cross-compilers for kernel developers.
 
Ok, I'll work with Vegard on this.

Thanks.

/ac

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