Re: [PATCH]: Fix sparc64 build...

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 12:59:00PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> 
> I have about half a year of potential regressions I'm about to
> discover on sparc64.  That's not an acceptable situation, long term.
> 
> I might get hit by a bus or whatever, so it would be nice if someone
> other than me were at least testing the code base out on sparc64.
> 
> That way problems get spotted when they get added, or soon afterwards,
> not 6 months later like some things are about to. :-)

Actually, we have this debian buildd thing regularly testing sparc
buildability:

  https://buildd.debian.org/build.php?arch=sparc&pkg=grub2

I assure you we'd have noticed in less than 6 months :-)

(though I admit, not as efficiently as you did)

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