Re: Debian on the Ionics Stratus plug computer
On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 02:29:29PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 10:20:01AM +0000, Nick wrote:
> > A related question...
> >
> > I have created a kernel package with the procedure described before;
> > installing this on the plug gets an error saying that the packages
> > arch (arm) doesn't match the system's (armel).
>
> Well if the system is armel, that's good since that's still in Debian.
> Not sure how you managed to make a kernel package for the old arm
> architecture. If you are cross compiling, remember that -aarm is not
> the same as -aarmel in Debian when doing dpkg-buildpackage and such.
>
> > The plug runs Debian Squeeze, I am suspecting the arch names have
> > simply changed and were this Wheezy the system would also be armel,
> > but I am not certain.
> >
> > I know I can --force-all, but is there some trick I should be using
> > to get the package labelled with arch 'armel'? Perhaps like this:
>
> If it says arm, then it is almost certainly the old ABI which used the
> old FPU style with kernel emulation for those CPUs without the old FPU
> (netwinder fpu emulation in the kernel).
>
> armel is the new ABI with softfloat. armhf is the new ABI with hardfloat
> for VFP FPUs (the new FPU style).
And no I don't think there is any kind of force that will make a package
built for 'arm' work on 'armel'.
--
Len Sorensen
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