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

Daniel Gomez da.gomez at samsung.com
Wed Aug 7 06:56:38 PDT 2024


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.

> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h


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