Hello, When building kernel modules (specifically the OpenAFS module) to match the kernels in the Debian archive for i386 and sparc, some questions came up.
For the i386 architecture, there is a separate kernel-headers package for each kernel flavour, so building using these should produce working modules. On sparc, there is only one kernel-headers package (for the sun4cmd subarch?). Is building a kernel module say for sun4u-smp with these headers guarateed to work? If not, one should probably have to get the correct version of the kernel-source pachage (but this may have been replaced in the archive) and the kernel-image source package (for patches), so that way is not so desirable. Another thing is that the kernel-image packages for sparc has the sub-architecture in the package name, but not in the /lib/modules path. The variables passed by make-kpkg to build a kernel module package does not seem to be enough to inform about this situation, so the buildt package will either miss the sun4xxx in the package name and kernel dependencies, or have it in the /lib/modules path, dpeneding of how make-kpkg is called, so in either case the .deb file will have to edited by hand. For i386, there is no problem, as the flavour is present both in the package name and the /lib/modules path. Arne
