Re: How to add new platform flavours to linux-2.6 source code package?

2010-07-28 Thread Gerhard Pircher
Original-Nachricht > Datum: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:32:04 +0200 > Von: Bastian Blank > An: Gerhard Pircher > CC: debian-kernel@lists.debian.org > Betreff: Re: How to add new platform flavours to linux-2.6 source code package? > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:01:2

Re: How to add new platform flavours to linux-2.6 source code package?

2010-07-28 Thread Gerhard Pircher
Original-Nachricht > Datum: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:02:01 +0100 > Von: Ben Hutchings > An: Gerhard Pircher , debian-kernel@lists.debian.org > Betreff: Re: How to add new platform flavours to linux-2.6 source code > package? Thanks for the fast reply! I'll

Re: How to add new platform flavours to linux-2.6 source code package?

2010-07-28 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:01:20PM +0200, Gerhard Pircher wrote: > > book3s-amigaone > > 44x-sam440ep > > 3. 'configs' keyword: > Contrary to my expectations I had add 'configs' entries for my > flavours, whereas the normal powerpc and powerpc64 flavours don't need > it. Why can't the build syst

Re: How to add new platform flavours to linux-2.6 source code package?

2010-07-28 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 12:02:01AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 23:01 +0200, Gerhard Pircher wrote: > > 2. 'image-file' keyword: > > Does this keyword also affect the kernel image makefile target? > No, it specifies the file to look at when checking that the kernel image > si

Re: How to add new platform flavours to linux-2.6 source code package?

2010-07-27 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 23:01 +0200, Gerhard Pircher wrote: [...] > 1. Documentation: > I looked at all the 'defines' files to understand their syntax and > to get an overview about all available keywords. > Nevertheless I would like to know, if there is a documentation > available that lists and exp

How to add new platform flavours to linux-2.6 source code package?

2010-07-27 Thread Gerhard Pircher
Hello, I'm currently trying to adapt the debian-installer for some desktop PowerPC machines (namely AmigaOne and Sam440ep), which are supported in the Linux kernel tree, but not by Debian. I thought it's best to add support for these platforms to the linux-2.6 Debian kernel package first (so that