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

[aexlfowley at web.de]

>> 1. gcc 4.4? Really? You have newer toolchans there.
 >
 >$ apt-cache search gcc arm
* Emdebian unstable has armhf (gcc-4.7-arm-linux-gnueabihf 
gcc-4.7-base-armel-cross). Kernel builds successfully but will not boot 
for me. Kernel with same .config and gcc-4.4- boots alright.
* Linaro has toolchains. The packages are quite big but they also 
offer snapshots ...
* CodeSourcery (now Mentor Sourcery CodeBench) also has an armhf toolchain.
But whatever works I guess.

A kernel package not including the kernel (uImage) is also not really 
useful. If you have to copy the kernel by hand you can also copy the 
modules. Someone could take a look at the kernel-package scripts if it's 
doable to move the kernel into the boot partition ...