On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Dechesne, Nicolas n-dechesne@ti.com wrote:
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).
Yeah, we should work to get this bug fixed, it's been around for quite a while already =\
This month we'll spend time making Systemtap to work out-of-the-box with the Linaro images, so will also put this bug as a requirement, so we can try to get it fixed for the 11.09 release.
Cheers,