Common data for uImage generation

[Amit Kucheria]

On 10 Aug 24, Loïc Minier wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010, Alexander Sack wrote:
> > assuming we have support to cross install debs on your sdcard, wouldn''t it
> > be good enough for your case to keep the old deb and install that rather
> > than keeping the backup on the sdcard?
> 
>  It's a valid point; also, the kernel changes ABI so frequently that
>  you'd probably have a couple of ABIs as backup kernels.

Yes, makes sense. If we can install to SD from an x86 machine..

>  BTW: installing a linux-image works fine in a qemu-backed chroot; I do
>  that all the time.  The one catch is that if one has the system
>  configured to run flash-kernel, that will break.  But for images I
>  create myself, I usually qemu-debootstrap + install a linux-image.deb
>  and that works fine.  It would work equally well on an installed
>  system, but one has to remember to disable the flash-kernel step before
>  installing a new kernel .deb.

I don't want to debootstrap everytime I want to try out a change. We need
something that works for an installed system if we are to convince people to
try out Linaro kernels.

/Amit