On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Ricardo Salveti <ricardo.salv...@linaro.org > wrote:
> > We (Developer Platform) are looking into making Ubuntu/Debian more > > cross-compile friendly. In order to > > decide what to focus on on first, I'd like to ask from input from you > > - what would you like to be able to > > cross-compile for the Linaro Ubuntu evaluation builds? We know a lot > > of people (everyone?) cross-compiles > > kernels already, and don't need help from distribution. What else do > > people compile often enough that > > cross-compiling would help? > i would add GST as well as it's usually customized/patched. i would also like to be able to 1- use systemtap with a cross compiled .deb kernel 2- use dkms with a cross compiled .deb kernel (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/dkms/+bug/666267 which has been set as won't fix recently...) the point is that using a cross compile .deb kernel is nice since we very often rebuild kernel, but we have out-of-tree modules (like for graphics acceleration) that are using dkms... honestly i am not too sure about what the exact problem is, but since you are asking for intputs ;-) i think both 1 and 2 are related since using systemtap requires to build a kernel module on the target (like dkms). nicolas
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