On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Dechesne, Nicolas <n-deche...@ti.com> wrote: > > > 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).
Yeah, we should work to get this bug fixed, it's been around for quite a while already =\ This month we'll spend time making Systemtap to work out-of-the-box with the Linaro images, so will also put this bug as a requirement, so we can try to get it fixed for the 11.09 release. Cheers, -- Ricardo Salveti de Araujo _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
