What would you like to cross-compile?

[Dechesne, Nicolas]

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