backporting 3.13 from experimental to wheezy

[Faheem Mitha <faheem@faheem.info>]

Hi,

See http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/115921/4671

I'm trying to backport 3.13 to wheezy, using instructions in the kernel 
handbook, namely 
http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html#s4.2.5.

The main stumbling block seems to be (so far) that gcc 4.8 is 
required, indeed hardwired into the build. This seems to have been done by 
Debian, as I don't see a reason why Linux itself would require it. This 
has the effect in this instance of making this packaging somewhat 
backport-unfriendly.

Incidentally, the handbook refers to flavors, but does not say what the 
possible flavors are. Also, it seems for amd64, one needs to set arch to 
i386 and flavor to amd64, which is confusing.

Can you advise on how one can configure the build to use 4.7 on wheezy, if 
possible? Thanks.

                                                          Regards, Faheem