On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 05:35:39PM +0200, Michal Marek wrote: > On 9.8.2013 17:27, Mark Brown wrote: > > ie, we can cross build the kernel but not fixdep, conf or mk_elfconfig > > since those are assumed to be runnable for the kernel build, meaning > > they can't be deployed onto a target system without hoop jumping. > OK, but what what do you need cross compile them and deploy on the > target? Their job is to build the kernel. So if you are going to build > the kernel on the target, you can also build the tools there, can't you? > Or are you using the tools from something else than building the kernel? > I think that we are missing some detail of your use case and it does not > make sense without that detail. Well, fixdep in particular seems like a generically useful thing that you might want installed but in general I agree - Andrey, why are we carrying this patch?
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