On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 05:35:39PM +0200, Michal Marek wrote:
On 9.8.2013 17:27, Mark Brown wrote:
ie, we can cross build the kernel but not fixdep, conf or mk_elfconfig since those are assumed to be runnable for the kernel build, meaning they can't be deployed onto a target system without hoop jumping.
OK, but what what do you need cross compile them and deploy on the target? Their job is to build the kernel. So if you are going to build the kernel on the target, you can also build the tools there, can't you? Or are you using the tools from something else than building the kernel?
I think that we are missing some detail of your use case and it does not make sense without that detail.
Well, fixdep in particular seems like a generically useful thing that you might want installed but in general I agree - Andrey, why are we carrying this patch?