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

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

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?

Jan

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