Re: Kernel Cross Compiling [update]

[Herbert Poetzl]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 09:07:11AM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 04:53:50AM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> >    interesting is that some architectures (arm, chris, v850)
> >    do not even have an appropriate default config
> 
> For some (eg ARM) one single default config makes zero sense.  I've
> been debating about removing arch/arm/defconfig for this reason; we
> have a whole host of machine default configurations in arch/arm/config
> to serve this purpose.

ah, okay, so could you 'suggest' or even 'provide' a config
which is somewhat 'representative' for the arm kernel
architecture, so that (mostly) platform independant patches
could be tested on this arch?

> >    				   linux-2.4.25
> >    			   config  dep     kernel  modules
> > 
> >    alpha/alpha: 	   OK	   OK	   OK	   OK
> >    arm/arm:		   OK	   OK	   FAILED  FAILED
> 
> ARM is not expected to build in 2.4 kernels, and probably never will.

okay, so this is a dead end for 2.4, right?

TIA,
Herbert

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> Russell King
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