Re: Building (Debian) kernel optimized for RPi Zero (W) and 1

[Punit Agrawal <punitagrawal@gmail.com>]

Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Debian provides a kernel for Raspberry Pi Zero (W) and 1, but that targets
> the armel architecture. I want to compile a/the Debian kernel that does use the
> HW capabilities of the RPi 0/1, similarly to how raspbian.org recompiles
> the Debian packages. Except AFAIK the Debian kernel.
>
> I know that Debian won't change their RPi kernel for armel, but this is for
> private use. But I don't know what the best way to go about that is.
>
> I found the following link wrt building a cross compiler
> https://solarianprogrammer.com/2018/05/06/building-gcc-cross-compiler-raspberry-pi/
> which in turn references
> https://preshing.com/20141119/how-to-build-a-gcc-cross-compiler/
> and that does look promising.

I am probably missing some context but I wanted to point to the armel
cross compiler in Debian - gcc-arm-linux-gnueabi. Is there some reason
to build the cross-compiler yourself?

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