[cip-dev] CIP kernel debian packages available?

[ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk (Ben Hutchings)]

On Fri, 2017-09-15 at 16:04 +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2017-09-15 15:52, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Fri, 2017-09-15 at 09:35 +0200, Henning Schild wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> i would like to integrate a CIP kernel into an x86_64 debian9, for
> >> starters a defconfig would be good enough. Is there by any chance a
> >> debian repo with cip kernels in it?
> > 
> > Is this intended for Siemens use or for all CIP members with
> > applications using x86_64?
> 
> We are currently the one with the immediate use case, but I could
> imagine that having such packages for x86-64 and maybe later on also
> i386 and arm64 would be beneficial for others as well. It's a matter of
> logistics and effort (at least initially).

So long as you want your own kernel config, I would suggest building
packages using
'make foo_defconfig && make deb-pkg' (substitute your preferred name for
'foo').  Since Linux 4.3 this builds both source and binary packages, so
it should be easy to satisfy your source distribution requirements this
way.

If we get to a point where members can use the CIP branch without
further patches and can share common configuration per-architecture,
then it may be worth making a fork of Debian's official kernel
packaging.  But if not, I think that will be more trouble to maintain
than it's worth.

Ben.

> What do others think?
> 
> Jan

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Ben Hutchings
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