Thankfully there is an archive of older Arch ARM packages which should reduce the amount amount of bisection / compiling I may need to do and they have packages for most stable kernels between 4.9.0 and 4.9.8
http://tardis.tiny-vps.com/aarm/packages/l/linux-armv7/ On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 3:45 PM, Dan MacDonald <[email protected]> wrote: > This is one of the cross-compilation guides I tried and failed to get to work. > > https://archlinuxarm.org/wiki/Distcc_Cross-Compiling > > It's been a year or two since I last tried to get distcc working. I > followed all those instructions but packages would only ever compile > locally. I can't remember what other guides I tried but that one was > the most directly relevant and most likely to work as I use Arch on > all my machines, x86 and ARM. > > On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 3:18 PM, Dan MacDonald <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Fabio >> >> I've never used bisect before and I have thusfar failed to get ARM >> cross-compilation to work so I'm a bit wary of having to spend several >> days rebuilding Linux several times on my board. >> >> I think the first thing I need to do is to see what other archived >> Arch kernel packages I can get - hopefully I can find packages for >> 4.9.1, 4.9.2 etc. I would imagine that if I can find the stable >> release post 4.9.0 where imx6 SATA speed took a nosedive, that will >> make bisecting much faster. >> >> If anyone has an easy to follow, known working guide to setting up >> cross-compilation from amd64 -> armv7h, that would be massively >> helpful as none of the ones I have tried in the past have worked. >> >> Thanks >> >> On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 2:58 PM, Fabio Estevam <[email protected]> wrote: >>> [Sorry for the top-post] >>> >>> >>> Hi Dan, >>> >>> >>> Could you run 'git bisect' between kernel 4.9.0 and 4.9.8 to understand >>> where this performance regression come from? >>> >>> ________________________________ >>> From: Dan MacDonald <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Tuesday, February 7, 2017 12:31:10 PM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Cc: Gary Bisson; Fabio Estevam; [email protected]; [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: ARM imx.6 SATA speed regression >>> >>> (Fake) Reply to CC in relevant people.
