Re: unable to cross-compile kernel?

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

>> You said it boots stock GENERIC just fine.  My first reaction would
>> be to try building GENERIC.MP on the SS10 running GENERIC.  It'll
>> take a while, but it strikes me as worth trying.
> Yeah I had thought about that, but that would be a challenge.  The
> SS10 in question is on the exhibit floor at LSSM, and there's no UPS
> for those machines.  We've been having fairly severe thunderstorms
> pretty much every day recently (drill baby drill, etc) so I'm not
> comfortable leaving the machine up for long enough for a single SM41
> to build an entire kernel.

Are you more concerned about a power failure taking the machine down or
about a power spike damaging it?

If the former, it's no big deal; just restart and make will skip
building what's already built.

If the latter...yeah, I get it.  Hmm....

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