Yes. Same here (as I mentioned somewhere, my Linux laptop has let out its holy smoke).

It could theoretically be possible to prepare crosscompiling toolchain under CygWin on Windows, but I am not aware that anybody tried it, much less succeeded.

Anyway, the first patched 2.0b3 kernels are appearing on riocar.org...
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