Re: Cross-compiling kernels

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Marco Amadori <elessar@dei.unipd.it> writes:

> Alle 20:13, lunedì 31 gennaio 2005, hai scritto:
>> Marco Amadori <elessar@dei.unipd.it> writes:
>> > Hi all ,
>> > I would like to compile kernels and modules with make-kpkg on my athlon64
>> > box.
>
> I missed to tell that I would like to compile it for i386, on a pure64 system.
>
>> > I need to just pass the right --arch options to make-kpkg or should I
>> > install and configure other pieces of software?
>
>> Read the kernel-image-amd64 source. It's more complex.
>>
>> MfG
>>         Goswin
>
> Anyway, I did not understood your reply.
>
> -- 
> Marco Amadori 
> :wq

The kernel-image-amd64 package (cross)compiles a 64bit kernel on
i386. To compile a 32bit kernel on 64bit you have to do the same
except reverse the -m switch.

MfG
        Goswin

PS: The simplest way to compile a 32bit kernel on pure64 is still to
create a 32bit chroot.