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Bug#695241: linux: Add basic arm64 support



On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 03:38 +0100, Wookey wrote:
> +++ Ben Hutchings [2013-10-13 19:20 +0100]:
> > > diff -urN origs/linux-3.10.11/debian/changelog build/linux-3.10.11/debian/changelog
> > > --- origs/linux-3.10.11/debian/changelog        2013-09-10 14:13:17.000000000 +0100
> > > +++ build/linux-3.10.11/debian/changelog        2013-10-11 04:05:57.380980848 +0100
> > > @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
> > > +linux (3.10.11-1~arm64) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
> > > +
> > > +  * Add arm64 packaging
> > > +
> > > + --  <wookey@debian.org>  Sat, 05 Oct 2013 02:24:25 +0100
> > > +
> > >  linux (3.10.11-1) unstable; urgency=low
> > >  
> > >    * New upstream stable update:
> > 
> > This should be targetted at 3.11 (trunk in svn).
> 
> Hmm. I was working off latest released package in unstable as that's
> the one I get to dowload and build. What do I need to do to 'target
> trunk in svn'? (e.g. where is it?)

There is a standard place to find this information...

[...]
> But we don't have an initramfs yet. klibc is not yet ported to arm64
> so initramfs doesn't work, so we can't use it. Once klibc arm64 is in
> debian, I agree this setting is not needed for a distro kernel.
> It's also really useful with a model which is all we have to build on
> currently.
[...]

This is going nowhere.  I'm not adding a config that looks like this -
use of an initramfs is mandatory.  (mips has been grandfathered in for
now.)

I'm adding just the linux-libc-dev package like you originally
requested.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Lowery's Law:
             If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.

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