Re: [Stretch] Status for architecture qualification

2016-06-20 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
d little-endian, likely > for binary file compatibility with files produced on Intel x86 and > x86-64 CPUs: see Yeah, apparently it's cheaper to bootstrap a complete new little endian platform than to fix portability issues in existing software... Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Re: maintainer communication

2013-12-24 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
> CONFIG_SERIAL_PMACZILOG) and the problematic disappearance of > CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK. I guess it's about the crash on non-Mac when passing debug=serial. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- ge...@linux-m68k.org In

Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)

2013-10-22 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
r{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- ge...@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "pro

Re: Binutils no longer autobuilding the cross-compiling packages...

2001-04-18 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
ink he was talking about building cross-compilers on the m68k platform, not about cross-compilers to generate m68k binaries. Yes, it's indeed useful to have a cross-compiler for a slow architecture on a fast architecture. But not vice versa, I guess :-) Gr{oetje,eeting}s,