From: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
To: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, debian-kernel@lists.debian.org,
kernel-team@fedoraproject.org, kernel@gentoo.org,
opensuse-kernel@opensuse.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Cross-compile binaries to build modules on target
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2020 08:14:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201007061404.GA9356@wunner.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c744107b341e487cf37139597a7775f6f62e12e8.1596702608.git.lukas@wunner.de>
On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 10:33:22AM +0200, Lukas Wunner wrote:
> To build external modules, one needs executables such as fixdep and
> modpost. But when cross-compiling the kernel, those executables are
> only generated for the host arch, not the target arch.
[...]
> Make distribution maintainers' lives easier by providing a new target
> "make kbuild_install" which cross-compiles the required executables for
> the target arch and installs them below $(INSTALL_KBUILD_PATH).
Two months have passed since I submitted this, alas without any
comments. Masahiro, Michal, what are your thoughts on this patch?
Pretty please?
Thank you,
Lukas
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-07 6:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-06 8:33 [PATCH] kbuild: Cross-compile binaries to build modules on target Lukas Wunner
2020-09-05 9:12 ` Lukas Wunner
2020-10-07 6:14 ` Lukas Wunner [this message]
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