Thanks!
Yes, I did not post here for a while, yet I've been quite active with developing my kernel.
Looking at my revisions, starting at Octobre 2011, i had exactly 200 commits until Octobre 2012... then I did nothing until May'13, where I started again, and lately I had my 1000th commit (okay you can't count many revisions, because I check in some binaries always^^), but yeah I'm back
I think it's always quite hard in the beginning, as you tend to get stuck at some point, and just run out of steam.. but then theres are little success that brings the fever back
About the cross compiler, I just thought it could be a little help. I had a working i586-elf-gcc with version 4.4.0 from somewhere, but as this is a little outdated, I decided to make a new one.
@Combuster why should it stop working? I tried it on a few installations, did not cause any problems...