mherkazandjian commented on a change in pull request #7917:
URL: https://github.com/apache/tvm/pull/7917#discussion_r622013896
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File path: docs/deploy/index.rst
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@@ -46,20 +54,105 @@ on a Linux based embedded system such as Raspberry Pi:
cmake ..
make runtime
-Note that we type `make runtime` to only build the runtime library.
+Note that we type ``make runtime`` to only build the runtime library.
+
+It is also possible to cross compile the runtime. Cross compiling
+the runtime library should not be confused with cross compiling models
+for embedded devices.
+
If you want to include additional runtime such as OpenCL,
-you can modify `config.cmake` to enable these options.
+you can modify ``config.cmake`` to enable these options.
After you get the TVM runtime library, you can link the compiled library
+Cross compile the TVM runtime for other architectures
+-----------------------------------------------------
+
+In the example :ref:`above <build-tvm-runtime-on-target-device>` the runtime
library was
+compiled on a raspberry pi. Producing the runtime library can be done much
faster on
+hosts that have beefy processors (such as laptops, workstation) instead of
target
+devices such as a raspberry pi. In-order to cross compile the runtime the
toolchain
+for the target device must be installed. After installing the correct toolchain
+the main difference compared to compiling natively is to pass a bunch of
command
+line argument to cmake that specify the compiler(s) to be used. For reference
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