Hello, On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Jeff Hoogland <[email protected]>wrote:
> Howdy All, > > I was wondering what is the best way to set up for building ARMEL packages? > I've got an N900 and I've got an Android tablet in the mail - it is simplest > to just build on those systems themselves or will it be better in the long > run to get some sort of build system going on my plain old laptop? > > I've spent the last couple days trying to get a QEMU working but kept > running into various road blocks. I finally got a chroot ARM environment > setup with QEMU, however when I try to run *dpkg-depcheck -d* I get and > strace failure and a QEMU failure message. > > Maybe I come late, but as part of my GSoC project I was able to create an updated Debian ARM image that can be run using qemu-system-arm. Not much trouble following Aurel's howto[1] with minor tweaks such you now can use directly kernels from Debian archive. 1- http://www.aurel32.net/info/debian_arm_qemu.php You might want to use: For installing: qemu-system-arm -M versatilepb -kernel vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-versatile -initrd initrd.gz -hda disk.img -append "root=/dev/ram" initrd and kernel are Debian installer's from archive. qemu-system-arm -M versatilepb -kernel vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-versatile -initrd initrd.img-2.6.32-5-versatile -hda disk.img -append "root=/dev/sda1" disk.img is a clean install and you can use the same kernel used for installing. Initrd should be changed. Hope this helps. -- Rudy Godoy http://stone-head.org
