Diederik de Haas <[email protected]> writes: > On maandag 24 oktober 2022 11:16:42 CEST Punit Agrawal wrote: >> I am probably missing some context but I wanted to point to the armel >> cross compiler in Debian - gcc-arm-linux-gnueabi. Is there some reason >> to build the cross-compiler yourself? > > I don't want to build for armel, but for raspbian.org's variant of armhf, > which is not the same as Debian's armhf. > The RPi 0/1 fall somewhere in the middle of Debian's armel and armhf and > that's the whole reason raspbian.org was created.
Thanks for the context. > But it can be that I'm looking at this problem all wrong and/or have some > tunnel vision towards building a cross compiler. > That is an important reason for making this ML thread. IIUC, for the kernel, either compiler should be fine. The documentation[0] for compiling the RPi Zero kernel seems to bear this out - it even uses the "CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf-". If you've got access to the hardware it should be easy to test before kicking off the Debian kernel package build. Hope that helps. Regards, Punit [0] https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/linux_kernel.html#cross-compiling-the-kernel
