Re: [PATCH v2] Makefile: support compressed debug info

From: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
To: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
	Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>,
	Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>,
	David Blaikie <blakie@google.com>,
	Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>,
	Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Makefile: support compressed debug info
Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 08:58:47 -0700	[thread overview]
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On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 12:48 AM Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> *** The opposite is the case. ***
>
> Here, I am on a Samsung SandyBridge CPU/GPU aka 2nd generation
> ultrabook series runing Debian/testing AMD64.
>
> A slightly modified Debian-kernel linux-config takes me approx. 5 (in
> words five) hours of compiling and generating Debian packages.
>
> Plus, testing.
> Plus, testing.
> Plus, testing.
>
> In Linux-next times I run the whole Linux-Test-Project tests plus some
> FIO tests.
>
> Finally, I decide depending from what is new and interesting to me to
> attend a full single Linux-kernel release cycle.
> The last was Linux v5.3 which was the first release to be
> compile/link-able - with no modifications - with LLVM/Clang/LLD v9.0.
> For upcoming Linux v5.7 I have built each single RC Linux-kernel and
> used it in my daily work!
> Since RC1 - for me running on bare metal counts - checking QEMU or
> other VM is nice - but showed me that says sometimes nothing.
>
> Plus, I am building llvm-toolchains (LLVM/Clang/LLD) and testing with
> them (and report if needed).

This is a lot of invaluable work.  It means the world to me Sedat!

>
> "...if we diligently credit our idea reporters, they will, hopefully,
> be inspired to help us again in the future."
>
> These are some motivating words...
>
> My Tested-by is like a certificate - like a "Made in Germany" seal :-).

I love this, it is.  Maybe if folks on this thread are bored, they
could help me with a personal project of mine?
https://github.com/nickdesaulniers/What-Open-Source-Means-To-Me
We could use more German, and Japanese.

>
> Virtual Greeting from North-West Germany,
> - Sedat -

-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers