<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Ricardo Salveti <<a href="mailto:ricardo.salveti@linaro.org">ricardo.salveti@linaro.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">> 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? </div></blockquote></div> 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 <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/dkms/+bug/666267">https://bugs.launchpad.net/dkms/+bug/666267</a> 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