Re: Configuring foreign packages without qemu in order to boot a system

On Monday 03 September 2012 09:20:02 Neil Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Sep 2012 02:56:28 +0100
>
> Wookey <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > And remember that the default
> > > > in-kernel Debian packaging is *native-only* and will not cross-build
> > > > without patching.
> >
> > Note that this has been fixed on Ubuntu so that a standard
> > dpkg-buildpackage -a<arch> will cross-build the kernel. That may well
> > make its way into the Debian packaging as it's not a big change AIUI.
>
> It's not about the Ubuntu or Debian packaging - there a is build-deb
> script in the tarballs from kernel.org and it is this which is native
> only. Fixing this in Ubuntu won't work - someone needs to push it into
> mainline.
>
> This is about building a linux-image_$version_armel.deb just by
> unpacking the kernel.org tarball and running make menuconfig ; make.

Actually, I was referring to the Debian kernel packages originally, and it 
would be those packages I'd use to build the kernel. My impression of 
upstream "in-project" Debian packaging is that it's against policy: debian 
directories and their contents should be separate unless the package is 
inherently Debian, which of course the kernel is not.

But then again, I don't see that going on in a kernel.org archive for 2.6.39, 
either, so maybe this is just a matter of some other upstream packaging that 
isn't up to the job. Either way, I wouldn't be looking in the kernel.org 
sources for any Debian-related stuff.

But I imagine we all know the score about what can and cannot be cross-built 
now. :-)

Paul