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