Arch specific kernel building

[Pepijn Oomen <oomen@piprograms.com>]

Hi all,

I am currently working on the IXP425 kernel modules for the arm/nslu2 
specific port of debian and ran into the following:

The linux-source-2.6.16 package is arch independent and thus does not 
contain arch specific patches. However, the linux-headers-2.6.16-1-nslu2 
package does contain eg. net/maclist.h which is the result of two arch 
specific patches from the linux-patch-debian-2.6.16 package.

My question: how are the architecture specific packages 
(linux-image-2.6.16-1-nslu2/linux-headers-2.6.16-1-nslu2) build?

Or more generic: how can I determine which patches are actually applied 
to generate arch specific kernel packages?

TIA,
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Pepijn Oomen
http://piprograms.com/