On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:47:57AM +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11 2008 at 0:44 +0200, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Andrew this patch was in -mm for two month or so. I was under the impression > that you have an arm cross compiler that tries to build every -mm kernel. > Is it possible that for some reason this portion did not get compiled? > Is there a place that one can inspect the output of -mm compilations, Specially > for cross compiled ARCHs? Having a patch sit in -mm for ARM doesn't mean a lot since there's no guarantee that it'll get built, and that is because the ARM architecture is very diverse; it's not possible to build a single kernel to support everything. So, when akpm builds a kernel for ARM, it's normally centered around one particular ARM defconfig (maybe with allyconfig or allmodconfig afterwards) but even that won't build all ARM specific code. This is why we now have kautobuild - http://armlinux.simtec.co.uk/kautobuild/ That's the only way we can get decent compilation coverage. That system isn't publically accessible (it's not even accessible to me) and it only builds the mainline kernels. Adding -mm to it might be possible, but as I understand the situation, even though it uses things like ccache, it can take about 10 or so hours to complete a set of builds. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
