Re: Questions on crosstool

[Ankur sheth <asheth at ixiacom dot com>]

On Aug 8, 2004, at 5:28 AM, Dan Kegel wrote:
> Yup.  There are a couple others out there, too.
> I haven't switched to using them because
> a) the kernel headers work fine, and unpacking the linux
>    kernel sources really isn't that big a burden
> b) I'm not convinced they work for all architectures (e.g. whacky
>    combinations of embedded processors and their options)
> c) I think they all assume you're trying to support linux-2.6,
>    so if someone wants to do a linux-2.4 only
>    system, they might object to the linux-2.6 abi leaking in
>    via these headers
> I think they're a good idea, just not quite yet for crosstool.

Agreed. But one of the reasons I gave to others at Ixia was - 
"crosstool doesn't support it yet!" :) I vaguely remember a thread on 
lkml discussing this.  There were some suggestions but I think they 
were talking about them in context of 2.7, so definitely not in the 
near future.

Ankur


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