On Mon, Feb 11 2008 at 12:02 +0200, Russell King <rmk+lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > Thanks Russell. That explains it. I wish they would include an -mm kernel once in a while. like 2-3 every kernel cycle. It is much nicer to find the problems before they are already in mainline. I would certainly sleep better. You have my vote. Boaz - 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
