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

[Roman Mamedov]

On Mon, 08 Oct 2012 04:34:14 -0400
Chris Tyler <chris at tylers.info> wrote:

> 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.

Thanks!

Also I think I have figured out why I wasn't able to build the correct
architecture package, it's the same as in this bug:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=664854

"export DEB_HOST_ARCH=armhf" before make-kpkg seems to do the trick.

-- 
With respect,
Roman

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"Stallman had a printer,
with code he could not see.
So he began to tinker,
and set the software free."
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