make-kpkg detects wrong processor type

[Wayne Gemmell]

Hi, I'm trying to make my own kernel useing make-kpkg to solve my earlier
problems with DMA etc. When I start the first processor family gets answered
for me as i386. I run an AMD K7 chip and I would like to compile accordingly.
How do I change this default and what possible implications ,if any, would
the changes have for the rest of my Debian setup, apt etc?? I've tried
bash>set HOSTTYPE=k7
bash>export HOSTTYPE
but the hosttype variable stays the same.

Is there an equivalent for this package with a menu interface like make
menuconfig in normal kernel compilations? It is so much quicker...

Regards
Wayne


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[Nick Hastings]

Hi,

* Wayne Gemmell <wayneg@ananzi.co.za> [030806 09:44]:

> Hi, I'm trying to make my own kernel useing make-kpkg to solve my earlier
> problems with DMA etc. When I start the first processor family gets answered
> for me as i386.

I believe this is the default in the .config for the kernel source.

> I run an AMD K7 chip and I would like to compile accordingly.

Then select it...

> How do I change this default and what possible implications ,if any,
> would the changes have for the rest of my Debian setup, apt etc??
> I've tried bash>set HOSTTYPE=k7 bash>export HOSTTYPE but the hosttype
> variable stays the same.

I didn't see the earlier thread to which you refer. That could explain
why I'm a little confused, but I'll try to answer anyway.

> Is there an equivalent for this package with a menu interface like make
> menuconfig in normal kernel compilations? It is so much quicker...

To what package do you refer?

If you are trying to compile a kernel with make-kpkg, you still need to
configure the kernel (eg "make menuconfig"), before "make-kpkg
kernel-image". If you already have a suitable configuration just copy
it to /usr/src/linux/.config (or wherever your kernel source lives).

Have you looked at the docs in /usr/share/doc/kernel-package?

Nick.

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[Bret Comstock Waldow]

On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 17:54, Wayne Gemmell wrote:

> Is there an equivalent for this package with a menu interface like make
> menuconfig in normal kernel compilations? It is so much quicker...

You do the 'make menuconfig' step before you compile with make-kpkg, as
you would with any other kernel compiling scheme, and you select your
processor while selecting the rest of your configuration. make-kpkg
takes care of all the compile steps to make a Debian package, not the
configuration steps.

Cheers,
Bret

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