Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Lars Weiler <pylon@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Considering dropping the hardened toolchain (A Quantitive Approach)
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 22:17:30
Message-Id: 20040919221649.GC28662@galadriel.wh-og.hs-niederrhein.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Considering dropping the hardened toolchain (A Quantitive Approach) by Ned Ludd
1 * Ned Ludd <solar@g.o> [04/09/18 14:27 -0400]:
2 > How are we going to handle the other arches.
3 > ppc/ppc64 These two arches could be added to mix relatively easy. But
4 > **** we can't even get one of those teams to test simple kernel patches
5 > that were developed especially for them after multiple requests.
6
7 Half a year ago the ppc-team was in quite the same
8 situation. Small development-team, a lot of bugs, many
9 small annoying mistakes in the documentation etc. pp.
10
11 The whole team did a hard work, so that we know can handle a
12 lot of our bugs in a short time, roll up our old ones, and
13 we are already in progress for the 2004.3 release (this time
14 ppc will become a member of the release-game :-) ).
15
16 If things go on like now, it should be possible that the ppc
17 team could offer some time and CPU-power for a hardened
18 release on that platform.
19
20 Keep cool and don't hesitate. Even Rome has not been built
21 on one day...
22
23 Regards, Lars
24
25 PS: I wish that hardened-gentoo would not 'die'. It's a
26 really nice experiment for securing a Linux.