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From: "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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Subject: Re: RFC: starting a kernel-testers group for newbies
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On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl> wrote:
>  On that note, I'd really like to see better binary availability of cross
> compilers. While it's improved over the last few years mostly due to the
> crossgcc stuff it's still a pain. Ideally, they would be available through
> the distribution package manager even but failing that some dedicated place
> on kernel.org with x86->lots and some of the more widely used other
> combinations would quite definitely be good. Perhaps not really directly
> relevant to this thread as such, but still good.
>
>  Andrew maintain{s,ed} a number of them at
>
>  http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/cross-compilers/
>
>  But as you see, most of the stuff there is really old again...

You're most welcome to help out Vegard to do this:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/