Building a custom kernel for ARM in order to move to ARMEL

["Jeffrey B. Green" <jeff@kikisoso.org>]

Hi,

I'm trying to build a custom kernel in order to do a move of an arm 
installation to an armel installation. I've actually built the kernel 
after spending a bit of time learning about section mismatches and 
bad_ulimits when build messages encouraged me to do so. However when I 
tried to flash via the flash-kernel command, the command balked since 
I'd created my kernel with an extraversion such that my standard kernels 
would not get clobbered. Obviously I can go into the
flash-kernel script and force it to accept my kernel. However, that 
seems a bit kludgy. Is there a standard way to build these things so 
that they can be installed with the tools at hand and still be kept 
separate from the standard installed kernels? (If it matters, I forgot 
to build with the --initrd option and so had to make an initrd via 
update-initramfs...one rebulds on a slug only when forced....)

thanks,
-jeff