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

From: Michal Marek
Date: Thu Nov 25 2010 - 09:37:47 EST


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.

Michal
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