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On Saturday, October 29, 2016 4:42:21 PM EDT M. J. Everitt wrote: |
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> Completely out of my depth here, but can you cross-compile a |
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On Gentoo yes its called crossdev[1]. You can have a build system/toolchain |
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for any arch you need to make an entire system or binaries for and them over |
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to what ever device. Use a very powerful host system of a completely different |
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arch, like x86_64 to build armv7 and others. |
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I did this a while back to make tun/tap kernel drivers for an android system. |
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I also used it a very long time ago using docs in vapier's devspace[2] before |
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it was documented else where. That was when I got my first x86_64 system and |
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there were no 64bit pre-compiled kernels or livecds at the time. So I used a |
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i686 Gentoo system to make a x86_64 kernel. |
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The best part of that last story, I got kernel patches from SuperMicro because |
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x86_64 stuff was so new. The SuperMicro kernel patches were made against a |
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Gentoo kernel. |
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1. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Cross_build_environment |
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2. http://dev.gentoo.org/~vapier/CROSS-COMPILE-HOWTO |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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