On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 11:25:46PM +0200, Kevin D. Kissell wrote: > > Let me ask a stupid question. With all of the ways to otherwise do a > > cross compile, why a config option on MIPS? ARM*/SH*, which are at > > least as likely to not be native-compiled, don't do that. Just > > something I've always wondered, really. > > Probably because, unlike ARM and SH, the MIPS architecture began life > as a workstation/server processor, and for a while there cross-compilation > was the exception rather than the rule. OK, PowerPC. My kinda question/point was perhaps it's time to deprecate CONFIG_CROSSCOMPILE in favor of env or make to bring it in line with other arches (similar to how 2.4 had a few ways for arch/$(ARCH)/*config/ dirs, 2.6 is uniform). -- Tom Rini http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
