On Tuesday 13 February 2007 21:47, Joey Hess wrote: > Laz wrote: > > Someone mentioned on this list back in January that they would build > > an armel kernel package: did this ever happen? Can't see one in > > http://armel-debs.applieddata.net/debian but I do see lots and lots > > and lots of packages! :-) > > I've only just finished getting the kernel to build today. debs should > show up in the above archive eventually, but for now I've uploaded my > first build to > http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/tmp/armel/linux-image-2.6.18-4-ixp4xx_2 >.6.18.dfsg.1-10_armel.deb > > (All the other kernel packages for other arm systems etc are in the > same directory. I've not tested any of these kernels yet.)
Timing! I built one myself last night! real 540m52.723s user 476m50.010s sys 46m20.850s Times for a deunderclocked Slug. Long but not unfeasibly so. > > If there was a kernel image which worked with both the old ABI and > > the EABI binaries, wouldn't it just be a case of installing the EABI > > kernel, and then blatting the rootfs from: > > > > http://armel.applieddata.net/developers/linux/eabi/armel-root-fs.tar. > >bz2 > > > > over the current root (mine is on a USB disk so can be done > > relatively painlessly), swap the disk back to the NSLU2, and cross > > fingers whilst it boots? > > If you try this with the image above, note that you'll need to use dpkg > --force-architecture to install the deb, since it's an armel > architecture package and dpkg won't install it on an arm system > otherwise. Thans for the tip about dpkg: that would definitely have caught me! Just untarring the rootfs so I can test it as chroot to start with. Cheers, Laz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
