[ale] cross compiling kernel

Jeff Hubbs hbbs at comcast.net
Mon Sep 24 14:14:36 EDT 2007


Cross-compiling is a significant issue for Gentoo people, especially in 
conjunction with distcc.

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/cross-development.xml
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Cross_Compile
http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/~dbelan2/crossdev/crossdev-powerpc-i686.html



John Heim wrote:
> I need to compile a kernel for Intel P4 machines (and newer) on a 
> machine with an AMD64 processor.
>
> After reading the make-kpkg man page, I think I should be able to type 
> something like:
>
> make-kpkg --arch=i386 --cross_compile=i386 kernel_image modules_image
>
> It doesn't seem to like the  --arch and --cross_compile options. I've 
> been googling for a howto but haven't found any. Anybody have a link 
> to a good cross compiling howto?
>
>
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> John Heim
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