On 10 Aug 24, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010, Alexander Sack wrote: > > assuming we have support to cross install debs on your sdcard, wouldn''t it > > be good enough for your case to keep the old deb and install that rather > > than keeping the backup on the sdcard? > > It's a valid point; also, the kernel changes ABI so frequently that > you'd probably have a couple of ABIs as backup kernels.
Yes, makes sense. If we can install to SD from an x86 machine.. > BTW: installing a linux-image works fine in a qemu-backed chroot; I do > that all the time. The one catch is that if one has the system > configured to run flash-kernel, that will break. But for images I > create myself, I usually qemu-debootstrap + install a linux-image.deb > and that works fine. It would work equally well on an installed > system, but one has to remember to disable the flash-kernel step before > installing a new kernel .deb. I don't want to debootstrap everytime I want to try out a change. We need something that works for an installed system if we are to convince people to try out Linaro kernels. /Amit _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
