>> On that note, I'd really like to see better binary availability of cross
>> compilers. While it's improved over the last few years mostly due to the
>> crossgcc stuff it's still a pain. Ideally, they would be available through
>> the distribution package manager even but failing that some dedicated place
>> on kernel.org with x86->lots and some of the more widely used other
>> combinations would quite definitely be good. Perhaps not really directly
>> relevant to this thread as such, but still good.
>>
>> Andrew maintain{s,ed} a number of them at
>>
>>
http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/cross-compilers/
>>
>> But as you see, most of the stuff there is really old again...
>
> You're most welcome to help out Vegard to do this:
>
>
http://www.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/