Laz wrote: > Someone mentioned on this list back in January that they would build an > armel kernel package: did this ever happen? Can't see one in > http://armel-debs.applieddata.net/debian but I do see lots and lots and > lots of packages! :-) I've only just finished getting the kernel to build today. debs should show up in the above archive eventually, but for now I've uploaded my first build to http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/tmp/armel/linux-image-2.6.18-4-ixp4xx_2.6.18.dfsg.1-10_armel.deb (All the other kernel packages for other arm systems etc are in the same directory. I've not tested any of these kernels yet.) > If there was a kernel image which worked with both the old ABI and the > EABI binaries, wouldn't it just be a case of installing the EABI kernel, > and then blatting the rootfs from: > > http://armel.applieddata.net/developers/linux/eabi/armel-root-fs.tar.bz2 > > over the current root (mine is on a USB disk so can be done relatively > painlessly), swap the disk back to the NSLU2, and cross fingers whilst it > boots? If you try this with the image above, note that you'll need to use dpkg --force-architecture to install the deb, since it's an armel architecture package and dpkg won't install it on an arm system otherwise. -- see shy jo
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