[PATCH 0/2] Make PowerTOP generic

[Amit Kucheria]

On 10 Jul 30, Loïc Minier wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010, Amit Kucheria wrote:
> > > Will it make sense to have a "readme.ARM" or some other file in
> > > powertop which describes this step ? Any suggestions on how best to do
> > > this ?
> > Compiling natively (on target) or in a qemu-based armel environment on the
> > desktop will be required.
> > I'm hoping our debian friends will suggest some nifty tricks to make this
> > easy.
> 
>  xdeb cross-buildt it fine   :-)
> 
>  xdeb --apt-source -a armel powertop
>  should cross-build the pre-dependencies and powertop itself and output
>  powertop_1.11+git20091208-0ubuntu1_armel.deb which has an ARM
>  ./usr/sbin/powertop
> 
>  For this to work, you want:
>  * a maverick install or chroot
>  * hrw's cross-toolchain packages installed
>  * xdeb and build-essential installed
>

Got this setup and fixed the wiki documentation along the way.

All my xdeb builds crash and burn with the following error:

arm-linux-gnueabi-objdump: /lib/libm.so.6: File format not recognized
dpkg-shlibdeps: error: arm-linux-gnueabi-objdump gave error exit status 1

I've tried grep, powertop and binutils.

I'm running this in a maverick chroot on Lucid (64-bit).

Any clues what might be going wrong?

/Amit