Diederik de Haas <didi.deb...@cknow.org> writes: > Hi, > > Debian provides a kernel for Raspberry Pi Zero (W) and 1, but that targets > the armel architecture. I want to compile a/the Debian kernel that does use > the > HW capabilities of the RPi 0/1, similarly to how raspbian.org recompiles > the Debian packages. Except AFAIK the Debian kernel. > > I know that Debian won't change their RPi kernel for armel, but this is for > private use. But I don't know what the best way to go about that is. > > I found the following link wrt building a cross compiler > https://solarianprogrammer.com/2018/05/06/building-gcc-cross-compiler-raspberry-pi/ > which in turn references > https://preshing.com/20141119/how-to-build-a-gcc-cross-compiler/ > and that does look promising.
I am probably missing some context but I wanted to point to the armel cross compiler in Debian - gcc-arm-linux-gnueabi. Is there some reason to build the cross-compiler yourself? [...]