Re: Make d-i capable to cross compile armel|* firmware images

2009-05-25 Thread Hector Oron
Hi, This was one of the release main goals and if nobody has something in favour of it, this goal should be dropped avoiding complexity grow in code and maintainability. Cheers -- Héctor Orón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: Make d-i capable to cross compile armel|* firmware images

2009-05-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 09 May 2009, Hector Oron wrote: > QUESTIONS > Do you think this is a useful feature or a waist of time? > Do you see any blocker to be able to do so? The D-I build process copies/uses quite a few files from the host system into images while building an image. For example it uses libra

Make d-i capable to cross compile armel|* firmware images

2009-05-09 Thread Hector Oron
Hi all, INTRO It's been a while since we[1] built our first cross compiler. Debian gcc package is able to produce compilers that spit your favorite arch code from your i386|amd64 host machine. There are many fields in Debian that could improve by the higher compilation speed obtained when cross