Re: Tweaking Kernel Makefile

[Xavier Grave <grave@ipno.in2p3.fr>]

On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Eric Reischer wrote:

> If I "tweak" the top-level makefile for a 2.3 kernel to force the ARCH 
> variable to be PPC instead of running uname -m, would that produce a 
> successful compile for a PowerPC kernel, providing I get the makefiles 
> correct?  It seems too easy, and I'm probably wrong, but this seems to be 
> the only variable affecting how the kernel is bu

you need to cross compile and you have a cross compiler thee following do
it :
make CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu- ARCH=ppc xconfig
make CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu- ARCH=ppc dep
make CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu- ARCH=ppc zImage

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