[PATCH 00/12] Enable build system on macOS hosts

[Barry Song]

On Thu, Aug 8, 2024 at 2:20 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 07, 2024 at 01:56:38PM +0000, Daniel Gomez wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 07, 2024 at 01:01:08PM GMT, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > On Wed, Aug 07, 2024 at 01:09:14AM +0200, Daniel Gomez via B4 Relay wrote:
> > > > This patch set allows for building the Linux kernel for arm64 in macOS with
> > > > LLVM.
> > >
> > > Is this a requirement somewhere that this must work?  It seems like an
> > > odd request, what workflows require cross-operating-system builds like
> > > this?
> >
> > This isn't a requirement, but it would, for example, support workflows for QEMU
> > users and developers on macOS. They could build/compile the kernel natively and
> > use it to launch QEMU instances, simplifying their process.
>
> But that's not a real workload of anyone?  How often does this ever come
> up?  Who is going to maintain this cross-build functionality over time?

it is a real workload of me,  i was running qemu-system-aarch64 on x86
and it was
pretty slow. so got a M3 pro to accelerate my development. frequently changing
kernel's source code, i am using qemu-system-aarch64 to do quick verification.

>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>

Thanks
Barry