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Juli 2012

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Linux Kernel Developer Meeting 2012
by Jan-Benedict Glaw 08 Jul '12

08 Jul '12

Hi! There was a quite regular kernel hacker's meeting, which initially started AFAICT with m68k people, but got broader. There used to be one meeting per year, but the last one seems to have taken place in 2009, as http://meeting.ffis.de/devel.html tells me. (And from memories, that seems to be correct.) I had an email conversation with Maciej some time ago and I believe that it's time again to start a new meeting. So... Who's interested in coming along? In the last years, we met in the "Linuxhotel" (http://linuxhotel.de/) which is near Essen, Germany, directly next to the river Ruhr. They have comfortable rooms, prices (for some days over a weekend) are quite affordable and the house features, among others, a nice park for a walk and to meet up. I'm Bcc'ing other people (who are known to hack other platforms) and I'd like to get some feedback: When would/could you manage to come over? Do you suggest another place to meet? Once I've got some feedback, I'd probably start a Doodle poll and ask for rooms at the Linuxhotel. Happy hacking! MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw(a)lug-owl.de +49-172-7608481 Signature of: GDB has a 'break' feature; why doesn't it have 'fix' too? the second :

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Building Cross-Compilers
by Jan-Benedict Glaw 08 Jul '12

08 Jul '12

Hi! I'm regaining all the fun of porting! :-D I've just set-up again some script to (once a day) build a (kernel-only, for now) cross-compiler for the vax-linux target. (To be exact, I'm building for all these targets: alpha-linux arm-eabi avr bfin-elf frv-linux h8300-elf hppa-linux hppa64-linux m32r-linux m68k-linux microblaze-uclinux mips-linux mips64-linux mn10300-linux powerpc-linux powerpc64-linux ppc-linux ppc64-linux s390-linux s390x-linux sh-linux sh64-linux sparc-linux sparc64-linux tic6x-uclinux tilepro-linux vax-linux xtensa-linux ) It's the `master' branch of binutils's, gcc's and gdb's GIT repositories. What made me wonder the most was that things seem to work out of the box. I remember the dark times quite well, when it was quite a drama building a kernel-only cross-compiler, let alone one that could build userland. My next step is to also extract Maciej's SRPMs (you can find them at ftp://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/linux/mips/people/macro/SRPMS/) and build them as well (for `vax-linux' only.) That should bring me back to business. What's also quite nice is, that after not building a vax-linux gcc for quite some time, it just worked. Some 5 or 6 years ago, that target was broken like two times a month! That was (even longer ago) why I wrote a script to compile a compiler on a regular basis to catch problems early. (It's easier then to find the trouble-causing patch.) MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw(a)lug-owl.de +49-172-7608481 Signature of: The real problem with C++ for kernel modules is: the second : the language just sucks. -- Linus Torvalds

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