David Miller wrote: > From: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <phco...@gmail.com> > Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:22:27 +0100 > > >> For me the main reason for or against it is break probability. Merging >> will avoid stupid breakages like ones you fixed but may introduce more >> subtle ones >> > > You lack a cross-build environment? > I have only cross-build environment for ppc and mipsel. I installed sparc cross-toolchain from emdebian but apparently it's not enough to build grub-sparc. I was actually thinking that grub2-sparc was uploaded to debian and so at least compile-tested. > I test build the Linux kernel for about 4 or 5 platforms, all on the > same computer. > > And also as we've seen, keeping the build working doesn't keep bugs > from creeping in. Someone just needs to actively build and install > test the tree on the given platform if you really want to avoid > problems. > > I have about half a year of potential regressions I'm about to > discover on sparc64. That's not an acceptable situation, long term. > > I might get hit by a bus or whatever, so it would be nice if someone > other than me were at least testing the code base out on sparc64. > > That way problems get spotted when they get added, or soon afterwards, > not 6 months later like some things are about to. :-) > > The problem is that nobody of us has such hardware. I would happily do a sparc boot every 2 weeks but I just don't have a sparc
-- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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