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From: Ian Romanick <idr@us.ibm.com>
To: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: support of older compilers
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 10:54:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <418A7AFC.6040007@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0411041214590.1229@gradall.private.brainfood.com>

Adam Heath wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Nov 2004,  wrote:
>>On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 10:50:38 CST, Adam Heath said:
>>
>>>I didn't deny the speed difference of older and newer compilers.
>>>
>>>But why is this an issue when compiling a kernel?  How often do you compile
>>>your kernel?
>>
>>If you're working on older hardware (note the number of people on this
>>list still using 500mz Pentium3 and similar), and a kernel developer, the
>>difference between 2 hours to build a kernel and 4 hours to build a
>>kernel matters quite a bit.
> 
> Use faster hardware to compile a kernel.  Cross-compiling is easy for kernels.
> 
> Plus, at least on i386/debian, kernel-package makes it easy.

And if that 500MHz Pentium3 *IS* they fastest hardware they have? 
Should they just go carjack someone to fund a new system to make you 
happy? ;)  Not everyone has a corporation like IBM or Redhat to fund 
their hardware needs.  A lot of people that make real, valuable 
contributions to lk are on a shoestring budget.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-11-04 18:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-03 21:02 Timothy Miller
2004-11-03 21:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-11-03 21:22   ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-11-03 23:06   ` Adam Heath
2004-11-03 23:30     ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-11-04 16:50       ` Adam Heath
2004-11-04 17:00         ` Chris Friesen
2004-11-04 18:17           ` Adam Heath
2004-11-05 20:00             ` Willy Tarreau
2004-11-05 20:28               ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-11-05 20:31                 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-11-04 17:04         ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-11-04 18:15           ` Adam Heath
2004-11-04 18:31             ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-11-04 21:56               ` Adam Heath
2004-11-04 18:54             ` Ian Romanick [this message]
2004-11-04 19:48             ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-11-04 20:14               ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2004-11-05 20:04               ` Willy Tarreau
2004-11-04 19:36           ` Ian Hastie
2004-11-04 20:02             ` Ioan Ionita
2004-11-04 20:03             ` Adrian Bunk
2004-11-04 20:08             ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-11-04 19:38         ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-04 21:47           ` Adam Heath
2004-11-04 21:55             ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-04 23:39               ` Adam Heath
2004-11-04 23:52                 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-05  1:41                   ` Andries Brouwer
2004-11-05 15:41                     ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-05 15:47                       ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-11-05 16:22                         ` linux-os
2004-11-05 19:50                       ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-11-05 20:28                         ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-05 21:59                           ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-11-05 22:08                             ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-05 23:02                               ` [PATCH] change Kconfig entry for RAMFS (Was: Re: support of older compilers) Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-11-05 23:12                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-05 23:44                                   ` [PATCH] change Kconfig entry for RAMFS Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-11-06  0:48                                     ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-11-09 23:24                                     ` Matt Mackall
2004-11-10 10:40                                       ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-11-10 20:50                                       ` Bill Davidsen
2004-11-05 23:27                                 ` [PATCH] change Kconfig entry for RAMFS (Was: Re: support of older compilers) DaMouse
2004-11-05 23:49                                   ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-11-06 13:59                                     ` DaMouse
2004-11-05 22:08                             ` support of older compilers Hua Zhong
2004-11-06  8:38                               ` Willy Tarreau
2004-11-06  9:43                                 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-11-06 11:04                                   ` Willy Tarreau
2004-11-05 22:37                             ` support of older compilers [u] Martin Schlemmer [c]
2004-11-05 23:14                               ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2004-11-05 23:38                                 ` chibiryuu
2004-11-06 12:07                       ` support of older compilers Andries Brouwer
2004-11-06 17:33                         ` Linus Torvalds
2004-11-06 19:36                           ` Adrian Bunk
2004-11-06 21:41                             ` bloat Andries Brouwer
2004-11-06 22:07                               ` bloat Adrian Bunk
2004-11-06 21:30                                 ` bloat Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2004-11-07 13:37                               ` bloat Frank van Maarseveen
2004-11-05 20:20                 ` support of older compilers Willy Tarreau
2004-11-05 22:19                   ` Adam Heath
2004-11-04 22:36             ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-11-04 20:48         ` Bill Davidsen
2004-11-04 22:33     ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-11-03 21:17 ` Matti Aarnio
2004-11-03 21:37   ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2004-11-03 21:57     ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-11-04  2:16       ` Miles Bader
2004-11-03 22:07     ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-11-04 19:33 Clayton Weaver
2004-11-05 15:36 ` Nix
2004-11-04 22:49 Xose Vazquez Perez
2004-11-06  9:07 Clayton Weaver
2004-11-09 17:39 ` Nix
     [not found] <2Xj2s-5vj-33@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-11-06 10:15 ` Anton Ertl

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