[PATCH 0/6] Basic support for Debian armhf architecture

[Andy Whitcroft]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 04:15:13PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011, Tim Gardner wrote:
> > I presume you want these applied to
> > git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-debian.git since we haven't
> > started packaging for the next cycle.
> 
>  I'm not 100% sure what that means; I think
>  git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-debian.git is where you keep the
>  tip version of the packaging copied in the various kernel packages?  If
>  so, then this would seem like the place to land the changes, then I
>  would appreciated if these could be copied in linux / ubuntu-natty.git.
> 
>  The idea is that we could start building armhf binaries from an
>  modified Ubuntu sources, even if Ubuntu doesn't have armhf buildds
>  right now.
> 
> > armhf is going to be a new arch for sure?
> 
>  At UDS, both Linaro and Ubuntu ARM were in favor, but there were very
>  technical issues to solve:
>  * we hadn't and we probably still don't have buildds for armhf
>  * it will take some time to complete building of the archive
>  * some packages need porting to the new ABI, like gcj
>  * a transition path from armel would be desirable (multiarch helps
>    there)
> 
>  All of these are solvable, but I didn't want to start polluting the
>  kernel package with armhf flavors/abis/configs/... before we're closer
>  to this.  For now, Steve McIntyre and I are bootstrapping manually as
>  to prepare the ground and we'd like as many Ubuntu sources as possible
>  to be ready for armhf -- as to not have to merge our changes over and
>  over again.

Ok, the bits actually can't all go into u-debian as that does not
contain any specific architecture settings at all.  For now I have
pulled the relevant parts out and pushed those to u-debian, and pulled
the whole into natty.  Quick testing shows it is benign on all
architectures (as expected).

-apw