[ale] cross compiling kernel

Evan Pitstick bikingnerd at comcast.net
Mon Sep 24 14:19:14 EDT 2007


I don't have experience with cross-compiling but i have been reading the
LFS pages lately. Maybe this can help. It looks to me your major problem
is that you don't use --

http://cross-lfs.org/view/1.0.0/x86/boot/kernel.html


On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 13:07 -0500, 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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