linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kbuild, deb-pkg: support overriding userland architecture

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Message-ID: <20101125191035.GB20087@merkur.ravnborg.org>
Date:	Thu, 25 Nov 2010 20:10:35 +0100
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
Cc:	Asbjoern Sloth Toennesen <asbjorn@...jorn.biz>,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	debian-kernel@...ts.debian.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild, deb-pkg: support overriding userland
	architecture

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 03:37:39PM +0100, Michal Marek wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 07:05:20PM +0000, Asbjoern Sloth Toennesen wrote:
> > Usefull if building for sparc64 userland, because the
> > sparc and sparc64 userlands use the same 64-bit kernel,
> > making it impossible to always select the correct userland
> > architecture for the resulting debian package.
> > 
> > Might also be usefull, if you want a i386 userland with a amd64 kernel.
> > 
> > Example usage:
> > 	make DEBARCH=i386 deb-pkg
> 
> This variable deserves a mention in Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt not
> just in the commit log. Otherwise the patch is OK with me.  
kbuild related variables is usually named KBUILD_* - but not all of them.

	Sam
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