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

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 02:18:29PM +0600, Roman Mamedov wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Oct 2012 12:35:53 +0600
> Roman Mamedov <rm at romanrm.ru> wrote:
> 
> > Can someone please point me to a good howto on cross-compiling and creating an
> > armhf kernel package on Debian amd64?
> 
> Here is that HOWTO I was looking for, apparently no one bothered to spend 5
> minutes to help, so I had to discover things by trial and error and decided to
> write one myself. http://romanrm.ru/en/a10/cross-compile-kernel

1. gcc 4.4? Really? You have newer toolchans there.

2. kernel-package is not well-maintianed. Your best bet is on 'make
deb-pkg' in th kernl source tree.

You'd still need to set some environment variables there. I use:

  KBUILD_DEBARCH=armhf make ARCH=arm KBUILD_IMAGE=uImage deb-pkg

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