Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 8 Sep 2013 19:33:11 -0700 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] staging: Disable lustre file system for MIPS, SH, and XTENSA |
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On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 07:48:51AM +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote: > Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 08, 2013 at 06:03:00PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > >> Unfortunately, LUSTRE can only be built as module, so there is no > >> easy fix. > > > > Can't we just export the functions for those arches? Surely lutre > > isn't the first/only driver that needs this? > > It's simply necessary to keep up to date: we can't keep building new > arches since the initial cost can be quite high.
What do you mean by this? What "initial cost"? You should be able to cross-compile almost all arches on your desktop machine today with the compilers we have on kernel.org. If I can get them set up and working, they can't be that hard for anyone else :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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