[Arm-netbook] Cross-compiling an armhf kernel package on Debian amd64?

[Chris Tyler]

On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 12:35 +0600, Roman Mamedov wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Can someone please point me to a good howto on cross-compiling and creating an
> armhf kernel package on Debian amd64?
> 
> Ubuntu has stuff like [1][2] but there is nothing of that sort in Debian.
> Emdebian toolchains seem to support armel only. Linaro packages seem to be
> i386, not amd64, which creates problems (e.g. fakeroot can't be used).

The abi does not affect syscalls - so the kernel itself is not an
'armhf' kernel, just an 'arm' kernel. Support programs will use a
particular abi though.

-Chris