Re: 2.6.15-mm2: alpha broken

[Randy.Dunlap]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Paul Jackson wrote:

> Adrian wrote:
> > This is the amout of testing I can afford.
>
> It sounds to me like you are saying that a minute of your time is
> more valuable than a minute of each of several other peoples time.
>
> The only two people I gladly accept that argument from are Linus
> and Andrew.
>
> For the rest of us, it is important to minimize the total workload
> of all us combined, not to optimize our individual output.
>
> What you don't test, several others of us get to test.  Only its often
> more work, for -each- of us, as we each have to figure out which of
> 1000 patches caused the breakage.

I don't find building cross-toolchains quite as easy as Al does,
so I download and build with these (on i386):
  http://developer.osdl.org/dev/plm/cross_compile/
as Andrew has also mentioned in the past.

Or one can submit kernel patches for builds to an OSDL
build machine which does 8 or 9 $ARCH builds.

-- 
~Randy
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