On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 09:11 +0000, Laz wrote: > On Tuesday 13 February 2007 21:47, Joey Hess wrote: > > Laz wrote: > > > Someone mentioned on this list back in January that they would build > > > an armel kernel package: did this ever happen? Can't see one in > > > http://armel-debs.applieddata.net/debian but I do see lots and lots > > > and lots of packages! :-) > > > > I've only just finished getting the kernel to build today. debs should > > show up in the above archive eventually, but for now I've uploaded my > > first build to > > http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/tmp/armel/linux-image-2.6.18-4-ixp4xx_2 > >.6.18.dfsg.1-10_armel.deb > > > > (All the other kernel packages for other arm systems etc are in the > > same directory. I've not tested any of these kernels yet.) > > Timing! I built one myself last night! > > real 540m52.723s > user 476m50.010s > sys 46m20.850s > > Times for a deunderclocked Slug. Long but not unfeasibly so.
Nice. Mine took 20 mins longer (real time), of which there was 3 mins more user time. I had some other processes running, so... I was a bit worried about the size of the deb, only 8.5M whereas my x86 debs are all 20+M, probably due to a lot more drivers. I also cross-compiled the kernel on a x86 laptop (1.5 GHz) and that took me about half an hour. First, I though that it wasn't working right (I noticed the 8.5M) but maybe it was. I used debootstrap on ubuntu edgy, chrooted into it, added the emdebian sources and installed the cross-gcc for arm. I used make-kpkg with --arch arm and --cross-compile arm-linux-gnu. You see, I didn't document it, :-/ Anyway, I'm going to test both kernels to see if they work. If they do, I really like cross-compiling even though my x86 compiled kernel was a tiny bit larger in size. Maybe not exactly the same compiler/linker/etc. used? David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
