Re: Proper way for vendors to build deb packages of kernels.

2014-12-11 Thread Nick Black
peter green left as an exercise for the reader: Currently the raspberry pi foundation build their kernel and firmware into the same package in a way that does not work with dkms or generally integrate with Debian stuff. I've recently been talking to shiftplusone (who works for them) about the

Re: Proper way for vendors to build deb packages of kernels.

2014-12-07 Thread Uwe Kleine-König
Hello, On Sat, Dec 06, 2014 at 12:24:55AM +, peter green wrote: Currently the raspberry pi foundation build their kernel and firmware into the same package in a way that does not work with dkms or generally integrate with Debian stuff. I've recently been talking to shiftplusone (who works

Re: Proper way for vendors to build deb packages of kernels.

2014-12-07 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2014-12-07 at 11:15 +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: Hello, On Sat, Dec 06, 2014 at 12:24:55AM +, peter green wrote: Currently the raspberry pi foundation build their kernel and firmware into the same package in a way that does not work with dkms or generally integrate with

Re: [Raspbian-devel] Proper way for vendors to build deb packages of kernels.

2014-12-07 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2014-12-07, Ian Campbell wrote: On Sun, 2014-12-07 at 11:15 +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: On Sat, Dec 06, 2014 at 12:24:55AM +, peter green wrote: ... Currently i'm aware of three ways of building deb packaged kernels. 1: modify the Debian linux source package 2: use make

Re: Proper way for vendors to build deb packages of kernels.

2014-12-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 8:24 AM, peter green wrote: Does anyone have any other suggestions on what the best way for a vendor to take a kernel source tree (not debian derived) and produce deb packages and a debian source package from it? Personally, I think the most useful way to do this would

Proper way for vendors to build deb packages of kernels.

2014-12-05 Thread peter green
Currently the raspberry pi foundation build their kernel and firmware into the same package in a way that does not work with dkms or generally integrate with Debian stuff. I've recently been talking to shiftplusone (who works for them) about the possibility of improving this. Currently i'm

RE: Proper way for vendors to build deb packages of kernels.

2014-12-05 Thread Jared_Dominguez
What differences are there from Debian's kernel that preclude using DKMS? What do you mean by does not generally integrate with Debian stuff? -Original Message- From: peter green [plugw...@p10link.netmailto:plugw...@p10link.net] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2014 06:25 PM Central Standard

Re: Proper way for vendors to build deb packages of kernels.

2014-12-05 Thread peter green
jared_doming...@dell.com wrote: What differences are there from Debian's kernel that preclude using DKMS? What do you mean by does not generally integrate with Debian stuff? Well AIUI Debian kernel packages have * a corresponding headers package * Some kind of hook mechanism to integrate with