On 4 September 2015 at 14:06, Andre Przywara <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Riku, > > On 04/09/15 11:52, Riku Voipio wrote: >> On 4 September 2015 at 13:10, Andre Przywara <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi Riku, >>> >>> On 03/09/15 12:20, [email protected] wrote: >>>> From: Riku Voipio <[email protected]> >>>> >>>> Currently Makefile accepts only armv7l.* When building kvmtool under 32bit >>>> personality on Aarch64 machines, uname -m reports "armv8l", so build fails. >>>> We expect doing 32bit arm builds in Aarch64 to become standard the same way >>>> people do i386 builds on x86_64 machines. >>>> >>>> Make the sed test a little more greedy so armv8l becomes acceptable. >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Riku Voipio <[email protected]> >>> >>> The patch looks OK to me, I just wonder how you do the actual build >>> within the linux32 environment? >>> Do you have an arm cross compiler installed and set CROSS_COMPILE? Or is >>> there a magic compiler (driver) which uses uname -m as well? >>> And what would be the difference to setting ARCH=arm as well? Just >>> convenience? >> >> It's just an arm32 chroot, with an native arm32 compiler. The chroot >> is on an arm64 machine since these tend to be much faster than arm32 >> hardware. > > Oh right, a chroot, didn't think about the obvious ;-) > Also it applies to 64-bit kernels with 32-bit root filesystems, I think. > So: > > Acked-by: Andre Przywara <[email protected]>
Ping? >> >> It would of course be possible to set ARCH=arm, but that would mean >> some ifdefs in the Debian packaging, since the same build rule should >> work for all architectures. >> >> Riku >> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
