Re: [PATCH 00/12] Enable build system on macOS hosts

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On Wed, Aug 07, 2024 at 04:19:42PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 07, 2024 at 01:56:38PM +0000, Daniel Gomez wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 07, 2024 at 01:01:08PM GMT, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > On Wed, Aug 07, 2024 at 01:09:14AM +0200, Daniel Gomez via B4 Relay wrote:
> > > > This patch set allows for building the Linux kernel for arm64 in macOS with
> > > > LLVM.
> > > 
> > > Is this a requirement somewhere that this must work?  It seems like an
> > > odd request, what workflows require cross-operating-system builds like
> > > this?
> > 
> > This isn't a requirement, but it would, for example, support workflows for QEMU
> > users and developers on macOS. They could build/compile the kernel natively and
> > use it to launch QEMU instances, simplifying their process.
> 
> But that's not a real workload of anyone?  How often does this ever come
> up?  Who is going to maintain this cross-build functionality over time?

The delta is becoming very small thanks to the latest patches from Masahiro.
Earlier this week (next-20240820) [1] I rebased the work with all the feedback
and the patch series has been reduced to 7.

For the maintenance part, I suggest keeping a CI to build and boot the lastest
linux-next tag available. I can set this up here [2] and take the responsability
for maintaining that. But I would be convenient to add documentation for it in
the LLVM section and mark this as 'experimental'. If that's okay, I will prepare
a v2 with this.

[1] https://github.com/SamsungDS/linux/commits/b4/macos-build-support/
[2] https://github.com/SamsungDS/linux

> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h




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