On Wed, 08 Oct 2014 14:21:00 -0700 "H. Peter Anvin" <h...@zytor.com> wrote:
> On 10/08/2014 02:09 PM, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > >> > >> Breaking cross-compilation is not okay, though, regardless of what > >> Fedora does. It should be okay to, for example, build an i386 kernel on > >> an ARM box. > >> > > > > I think they tried that for a while, and ended up chasing compiler > > and makefile bugs all day. And then there's the software that wants > > to run self-tests as part of its build... > > > > That we can't solve, but it is not okay to break the kernel build. > Also, as Andy pointed out, when building for x86_64 we probably want to build both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of most test programs like this one. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
