Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] Isar cross-compilation support

[Alexander Smirnov <asmirnov@ilbers.de>]

On 07/17/2018 05:40 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2018-07-17 15:38, [ext] Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> On 2018-07-17 15:18, Alexander Smirnov wrote:
>>> Hi everybody,
>>>
>>> sorry for the delay, this is the third version of cross-compilation
>>> support for Isar.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for the update!
>>
>>> Supported targets for cross-compilation:
>>>   - stretch armhf
>>>   - stretch amd64
>>>
>>> Artifacts could be cross-compiled:
>>>   - dpkg.bbclass users
>>>   - dpkg-raw.bbclass users
>>>   - kernel
>>>
>>> Known issues:
>>>   - if target and host architectures are the same, there is no need
>>>     to use host buildchroot.
>>>   - kernel module doesn't support cross-compilation. Default linux-headers
>>>     package depends from target gcc binaries. So attempt to install, for
>>>     example linux-headers-armmp, tries to install gcc:armhf, what rises
>>>     conflict with the host tools.
>>
>> Could you imagine overriding such specialties with extra rules, even if
>> package specific? Not having kernel module in the cross compilation
>> chain main cause troubles (or does it work fine to cross-build the
>> kernel and then natively build the modules?).
>>
>>>
>>> To enable cross-compilation, the variable ISAR_CROSS_COMPILE should be set
>>> to "1" in local.conf file.
>>
>> I will retry that series soon, on my standard testcase jailhouse-images.
>> It's growing and urgently needs an accelerator :).
>>
> 
> What's the baseline of these patches, master? Why not using next?
> 

mosipov-devel to avoid additional rebase, let me check.

Alex