On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Ricardo Salveti <ricardo.salveti@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).

nicolas