On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 10:00:35AM +0100, Arne Nordmark wrote: > Ben Collins wrote: > > Thanks for answering. > > > > > On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 08:28:19PM +0100, Arne Nordmark wrote: > > > 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. > > > > No, there is one kernel-headers package for sparc64 and sparc32 (both > > sets are in the same package). > > > > I do not suggest using the headers to build modules. Use the whole > > source. > > What would be a typical use of the kernel-headers, then?
Glibc. > > > > > 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. > > > > You'll have to use the same method as the source > > does. Honestly I would suggest not doing pre-built modules for upload. What you need is just a modules source package that patches the kernel source so users can rebuild with those modules if they want. Lots of packages do that. -- .----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=-----. / Ben Collins -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
